Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s chances of getting a fresh trial seem to be dwindling, judging by the pointed questions of an appellate court during a hearing in Manhattan on Tuesday.
Bankman-Fried’s lawyer Alexandra Shapiro told the trio of Second Circuit judges that the high-profile trial was “fundamentally unfair” because her client was prevented by District Judge Lewis Kaplan from telling the jury his side of the story, or presenting the 17 jurors with “objective evidence” that FTX was, in fact, solvent at the time it filed for bankruptcy following its spectacular collapse in November 2022.
Source: Appeals Court Seems Unmoved by Sam Bankman-Fried’s Claims of an Unfair Trial