Sam Bankman-Fried Takes the Stand – In a Preview for the Judge – Testimony is Risky Last Ditch Effort to Avoid Decades-Long Sentencing
The high-profile trial of Sam Bankman-Fried has moved to a new phase as the prosecution rests and his defense gets to put forth their own case and call their own witnesses.
And right on the first day, SBF has taken the stand to testify in his own defense but, in an unusual decision, it was, at first, without the jury present.
Judge Lewis Kaplan said a ‘number of areas of potential testimony’ were flagged by the prosecution and he said the jury should not hear it before he has a chance to rule on it. Once the Judge makes a decision, the jury will be brought back in.
One of the issues deals with Signal app channels.
