{"id":182949,"date":"2023-10-25T15:39:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T15:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=182949"},"modified":"2023-10-25T15:39:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T15:39:27","slug":"sam-bankman-fried-will-testify-at-criminal-trial-say-defense-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/crypto\/sam-bankman-fried-will-testify-at-criminal-trial-say-defense-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Bankman-Fried will testify at criminal trial, say defense lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"
Former FTX CEO Sam \u201cSBF\u201d Bankman-Fried will testify as part of his defense case, said his attorney Mark Cohen.<\/p>\n
In an Oct. 25 telephone conference between SBF\u2019s lawyers, prosecutors, and Judge Lewis Kaplan, Cohen said following the prosecution completing the presentation of its case on Oct. 26, his team planned to call three witnesses as well as Bankman-Fried to the stand. Judge Kaplan said he would allow the case to go \u201cstraight through\u201d on Oct. 26, moving directly from the prosecutors\u2019 final witness to the defense\u2019s first one.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story, and further information will be added as it becomes available.<\/p>\n