A U.S. district choose has as soon as once more shot down Sam Bankman-Fried’s request to be quickly launched from jail earlier than his upcoming trial.
On Monday, Bankman-Fried’s attorneys submitted a proper request for the previous FTX CEO to be launched on October 2, the day earlier than his trial is scheduled to start.
The attorneys argued that Bankman-Fried’s short-term launch during the trial is important for the preparation of his protection, citing the extremely technical nature of the trial, the prosecution’s checklist of greater than 50 witnesses, and the necessity to comb via 1000’s of pages of witness materials and greater than 1,300 displays.
On Thursday, nonetheless, Choose Lewis A. Kaplan denied the request “for causes acknowledged on the file this date.”
Bankman-Fried was out on a $250 million bail and staying at his father or mother’s home in Palo Alto, California following his arrest in December. However federal prosecutors efficiently had his bail revoked in August based mostly on allegations that he engaged in witness tampering.
Later that month, Bankman-Fried’s attorneys first requested his pretrial launch, arguing that his keep at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Heart (MDC) jail reduces his entry to discovery within the case “from seven days per week/80-100 hours per week to (at most) two days per week/six hours a day.”
Kaplan first denied the request for pre-trial launch on September twelfth, ruling that Bankman-Fried had “not made any detailed displaying as to particular supplies that he claims he has been unable to entry personally and the explanation why any such private incapability truly would impede his protection.”
The choose additionally famous that Bankman-Fried hadn’t requested to postpone the trial regardless of his provide to contemplate doing so.
The FTX founder has been charged with defrauding buyers and mishandling billions of {dollars} value of buyer funds associated to the trade’s collapse final yr. If convicted, he faces many years behind bars.
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