We are recording this a bit later in the evening than usual with some pizza here in the studio

because we had a long day at court today, we got there in the dark and we left in the dark

and that's because today we heard the closing arguments in the trial of Sambitement freed.

We got to hear from the prosecution and the defence.

Yeah, and Judge Rose Kaplan was determined that we would get through closing arguments

today. He kept us there about an hour and a half later than we usually get out.

But it started off with a nearly four hour long speech from prosecutor Nicholas Vose

and it was riveting. Vose was working really hard to drive home the idea that

Bankman freed was at the centre of the alleged fraud. And on top of that,

Vose called Bankman freed a liar, even saying that the testimony he gave to the jury

over the course of three days was a lie. But then this afternoon we got to hear the other side

Mark Cohen, the lawyer for the defence, gave us a very different version of events, didn't he?

Yeah, and Cohen's arguments felt completely different. He told the jury that the government had

made Bankman freed out to be a sort of cartoon villain and they needed to look again at the evidence

in a new way. And Cohen ended on an emotional note in the courtroom with a plea to the jurors.

You know, we ask you to find our client, Bankman freed, not guilty.

From the journal, this is the trial of crypto's Gordon Boy.

I'm cute on our staff and I'm Rachel Humphries.

Coming up, a final pitch to the jury.

I just wanted to put it on the record that we discovered a new feature at the court today,

which is if you go into the cafeteria in the morning, you can order a homemade pie to be made

by lunchtime, which we did today. A blueberry pie, it was delicious and an unexpected bonus

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