Attorneys representing former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried have written one other letter to the presiding decide, looking for modifications to the jury directions. Within the letter addressed to Decide Lewis Kaplan, the protection attorneys requested that the jury think about the function of English regulation in governing FTX’s phrases of service.
The proposal calls on the 12 jurors within the case to think about that for misappropriation to have occurred, there will need to have existed a belief, fiduciary relationship or an identical relationship between FTX and its prospects. Nevertheless, the agency’s phrases of service have clarified that there was no relationship between the 2 events.
The protection attorneys’ proposal read:
“Underneath English regulation, the Phrases of Service don’t create a belief relationship or comparable fiduciary relationship between FTX and its prospects. Nor, beneath English regulation, do any representations made after a buyer agreed to the Phrases of Service create a belief relationship or comparable fiduciary relationship.“
They added, “If an individual subjectively anticipated, understood or believed {that a} belief, fiduciary relationship, or comparable relationship existed, doesn’t create such a relationship.“
The protection staff cited a number of examples of different instances from the UK in a final bid for a not-guilty verdict for his or her consumer.
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Bankman-Fried’s attorneys have made a number of requests to the decide all through the course of the case, together with quite a few requests for early bail earlier than the trial, citing a scarcity of enough facilities to arrange. Nevertheless, most requests have been declined.
The previous FTX CEO is at the moment dealing with a number of fees of fraud and misappropriation of buyer funds to finance his private bills. SBF, over the course of his trial, has denied misappropriation of funds and claimed he hasn’t defrauded his prospects. Previously, Bankman-Fried was additionally accused of witness tampering.
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