{"id":24095,"date":"2023-10-25T16:09:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T16:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/sam-bankman-fried-will-testify-at-criminal-trial-say-defense-lawyers\/"},"modified":"2023-10-25T16:09:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T16:09:46","slug":"sam-bankman-fried-will-testify-at-criminal-trial-say-defense-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/sam-bankman-fried-will-testify-at-criminal-trial-say-defense-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Bankman-Fried will testify at criminal trial, say defense lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former FTX CEO Sam \u201cSBF\u201d Bankman-Fried will testify as part of his defense case, said attorney Mark Cohen.<\/p>\n
In an Oct. 25 telephone conference between SBF\u2019s lawyers, prosecutors and Judge Lewis Kaplan, Cohen said following the prosecution completing the presentation of its case on Oct. 26, his team planned to call three witnesses as well as Bankman-Fried to the stand. Judge Kaplan said he would allow the case to go \u201cstraight through\u201d on Oct. 26, moving directly from the prosecutors\u2019 final witness to the defense\u2019s first one.<\/p>\n
According to Cohen, the defense is not expected to take more than three days to question the three potential witnesses, which included an attorney based in the Bahamas, Joseph Pimbley from litigation consulting firm PF2 Securities, and an individual to testify on the titles and responsibilities of former FTX employees. Altogether by Kaplan\u2019s estimation, the defense case could take \u201cperhaps an hour\u201d, excluding SBF\u2019s testimony.<\/p>\n
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