Sam Bankman-Fried not allowed to blame FTX counsel in opening statement, judge rules

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Jury selection for Bankman-Fried’s trial will begin on Tuesday and could stretch into the remainder of the week.

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“[The] risk of confusion and unfair prejudice to the government were defendant to focus on the presence or involvement of lawyers at or for FTX and Alameda – without any degree of specificity about what they were present for or involved in, what their tasks were, what exactly they knew, and what the defendant knew about what the lawyers knew and were doing – is palpable,” the judge wrote.

 

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