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Welcome to the SBF trial, a CoinDesk Podcast Network newsletter bringing you daily insights from inside the courtroom where Sam Bankman-Fried will try to stay out of prison.

Follow the CoinDesk podcast network to get the audio each morning with content from the Coindex regulation team

and voiced by Wondercraft AI. If convicted of wire fraud and or conspiracy charges, FtX founder Sam Bankman

Fried will probably spend quite a bit of time behind bars. But there's a good chance the 31-year-old

won't spend the rest of his life in prison.

Bankman-Freed's trial tied to the operation and collapse of FTX and its affiliated hedge fund,

Alameda Research, kicks off next week. Prosecutors will have to prove that he knowingly lied to his

customers or lenders, knew it was wrong, was trying to defraud them, or knowingly worked with at least one other person

to try and defraud lenders, customers, or investors. The burden of proof rests on the prosecution's

shoulders. The defense team, in contrast, only has to convince a jury that the U.S. Department

of Justice didn't successfully make its case that Bankman-Fried violated the law.

The charges themselves are committing wire fraud on FTX customers, conspiring to commit wire

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