Prosecutors in the case against the former CEO of the now-defunct FTX exchange, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), have pushed back against the defense’s suggested questions for jury selection. The co-founder faces seven counts of fraud-related offenses, including wire fraud of FTX customers.
On September 11, Bankman-Fried’s legal counsel proposed to ask potential jurors questions on various topics, including the effective altruism movement, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), political donations, and so on. The prosecutors also submitted their proposed questions for jury selection on the same day.
DOJ Calls Out SBF’s Lawyers For Being ‘Unnecessarily Intrusive’
On Friday, September 15, the Department of Justice (DOJ) wrote to Judge Lewis Kaplan of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, slamming the nature of questions submitted by Sam Bankman-Friend’s legal team. The prosecutors argued that the defense’s proposed voir dire contains numerous “unnecessary and time-consuming questions.”
A part of the letter read:
The defense requests numerous open-ended questions about what opinions potential jurors have formed about the case, the defendant, and the defendant’s companies and asks whether potential jurors can “completely ignore” what they have previously seen. This is unnecessarily intrusive and goes beyond the purpose of voir dire.
Voir dire, French for “to speak the truth,” refers to a preliminary examination of a witness or the jury pool by a judge or counsel.
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Specifically, the DOJ kicked against questions in sections addres
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Author: Opeyemi Sule
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