SBF's lawyers still aren't sure what kind of case they're going to mount in his defense — or if they'll even make a case at all.
After the jury had left the courtroom following court proceedings in the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried yesterday, Judge Lewis Kaplan went over procedural matters with lawyers from both sides. When he asked Mark Cohen, Sam Bankman-Fried's lead defense attorney, about how long his defense will take, Cohen had a rather mysterious response: "We are still working through whether we are going to put a case on and, if so, of what nature.
What may look like last minute planning by Bankman-Fried's lawyers could just mean they are still weighing out potential options, Sabino said. In fact, while the government's case is expected to last two more days, for a total of twelve trial days over three four-day weeks, Cohen, who once represented Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, told Judge Kaplan, "I continue to believe that if we do put on a case, it won't be more than a week, week and a half at the max.
Yet, at nearly every turn, whatever notes they were showing the witness failed to refresh their recollection.
"I forfeited it," said Singh. "I bought it at a time when I understood that I was putting myself ahead of customers by doing so. I was embarrassed and ashamed," he testified, adding that forfeiting the house felt like a small righting of a huge wrong.
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