Juror selection is underway ahead of the upcoming criminal trial of disgraced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, and federal prosecutors are accusing SBF’s lawyers of trying to unfairly influence potential jurors in the case. 

In a filing submitted on Friday, prosecutors for the Southern District of New York asked judge overseeing the case to throw out a line of questioning proposed by the defense for voir dire—the preliminary examination of jurors before a trial. The prosecutors allege that the defense’s questions will drag out the selection process and bias jurors towards their client. 

“The defendant’s proposed voir dire contains numerous unnecessary and time-consuming questions, often soliciting open-ended discussion, as well as questions that are repetitive, prejudicial, and argumentative,” wrote the prosecutors.

Last Monday, both the prosecutors and the defense submitted their proposed questions to potential jurors for consideration. For the most part, there was overlap in the questions on whether jurors had any connections to either side in the case or had their minds made up beforehand.

However, prosecutors took issue with a set of open-ended questions proposed by SBF’s lawyers that asked whether jurors could “completely ignore” previous coverage of the case if selected. The gove

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