Legal professionals for Sam Bankman-Fried on Friday rejected as “totally insufficient” the federal government’s plan for letting the jailed founding father of the collapsed FTX cryptocurrency alternate put together for his October fraud trial.
In a letter to US District Choose Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan, the attorneys stated giving Bankman-Fried simply two days every week, and not using a devoted laptop, to evaluate the “extraordinary quantity” of proof violated his Sixth Modification constitutional proper to efficient counsel and assist his protection.
They stated it additionally undermined Kaplan’s expectation that Bankman-Fried would get no less than 9 hours a day to evaluate proof, and left their consumer no method to share supplies with them via Google Docs or e mail.
“That is totally insufficient and Mr. Bankman-Fried will be unable to meaningfully take part in his protection, as is his proper below the Sixth Modification,” the attorneys stated.
Bankman-Fried’s attorneys requested that he be allowed to fulfill with them 5 days every week on the Manhattan federal courthouse in preparation for the Oct. 2 trial. He’s being held on the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, NY.
A spokesman for US Legal professional Damian Williams in Manhattan declined remark.
Prosecutors had in a letter earlier Friday advised Kaplan that federal marshals had supplied “extraordinary accommodations” on the Brooklyn jail, reflecting the quantity of supplies and the trial schedule.
Each letters redacted among the proposed lodging, which prosecutors stated was wanted due to safety considerations.
Prosecutors have accused Bankman-Fried of stealing billions of {dollars} from FTX prospects to prop up a separate hedge fund, conduct dangerous trades, purchase property and make political donations.
The 31-year-old former billionaire has pleaded not responsible. He might be arraigned on Aug. 22 on the newest model of his indictment, which has seven fraud and conspiracy expenses.
Kaplan revoked Bankman-Fried’s bail on Aug. 11, discovering possible trigger to consider Bankman-Fried broke the legislation by trying to influence witnesses who’re anticipated to testify towards him.
Bankman-Fried had been below home arrest at his dad and mom’ dwelling in Palo Alto, California.
The Brooklyn jail, with about 1,549 inmates, has been plagued by circumstances that public defenders have referred to as “inhumane.”
A federal choose instructed in 2021 that the jail and a now-closed federal jail in Manhattan had been “run by morons.”
Bankman-Fried’s attorneys beforehand represented Ghislaine Maxwell, the previous girlfriend of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who complained for months that she couldn’t put together successfully within the Brooklyn jail for her intercourse trafficking trial.
