SBF TRIAL Podcast 10/25: Sam Bankman-Fried's Defense May Depend on Character and Fact Witnesses
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🗓️ 25 October 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
It appears Sam Bankman-Fried's defense strategy will likely center around his own testimony as the key witness in the trial, with a recent court filing suggesting at least six witnesses for the defense. It's likely that some of these witnesses may be character witnesses attesting to the defendant's moral character and conduct.
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| 1:16.4 | Sam Bankman-Freed's presentation in court won't kick off until later this week, but it's already clear his defense may hinge on one key witness, himself. |
| 1:26.1 | That's according to Kevin O'Brien, a partner at Ford O'Brien |
| 1:29.2 | LLP, and a former assistant U.S. attorney who specializes in white-collar criminal cases. |
| 1:35.7 | SBF is the defense case for better or for worse, O'Brien told Coindesk. The case thus far |
| 1:42.0 | appears to have not gone well for him. And I doubt the defense will have |
| 1:46.1 | any other substantial witnesses. Weeks ago, Bankman Freed's lawyers filed their proposed list of |
| 1:51.9 | expert witnesses, a roster that included several law experts, a finance professor, and a data |
| 1:57.5 | analytics and forensic specialist. However, Judge Lewis Kaplan, who's overseeing the case, granted the prosecution's request to bar those witnesses for a variety of reasons, |
| 2:07.6 | including arguments that the witness's testimony would be tangential to the case, |
| 2:12.6 | and that the witnesses themselves were unfit to testify in a U.S. criminal trial. He did allow the |
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