Sam Bankman-Fried’s defense team wants the judge overseeing their case to ask prospective jurors if they’ve had any dealings with the FTX founder, crypto or the now-collapsed crypto empire.
Attorneys for Bankman-Fried and the DOJ filed their proposed jury questions late Monday, just three weeks before the FTX founder’s trial on seven criminal charges is set to begin. The proposals are intended to identify if any of the possible jurors are familiar with the case, with crypto or with effective altruism, the philosophy that purportedly motivated Bankman-Fried to get rich so he could give his wealth away. The questions, which largely appear to be standard questions for a jury ahead of a
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