CoinVoice recently learned that, according to recent court documents, the government believes Sam Bankman-Fried's claims are baseless, asserting that the jury's verdict and trial outcome were reasonable.
SBF filed a request in September with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn his conviction. He argued that Judge Lewis Kaplan's judicial bias and procedural errors undermined his trial. Bankman-Fried stated that the judge's decisions restricted key defense arguments and limited evidence regarding his investments. He also suggested that FTX's financial issues were exaggerated, implying that customers could still recover their funds.
The government rejected these arguments, stating that SBF's appeal failed to demonstrate any errors or biases in the original trial. The government also supported the denial of SBF's request to compel third-party debtors to provide specific documents, claiming that the court's actions were correct because these documents were not in the court's possession.[Original link]