Lawyers representing Sam Bankman-Fried described motions from prosecutors requesting testimony from former FTX users as 'premature'.
is currently underway in New York, and his legal team has filed motions aiming to ban testimony from users and investors in the exchange.
“Decisions on specific testimony from specific witnesses relating to their individual understanding of specific statements or aspects of their relationship with FTX or Mr. Bankman-Fried cannot be decided in the abstract,” said the filing on FTX user testimony.blocking similar witnesses “[T]he Government seemingly wants evidence regarding how customers understood the relationship they chose to enter with FTX to be admissible only if offered by the Government but excluded if offered by the defense.”the Ukrainian witness’ testimony “would apparently reference hardships and individual circumstances created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine” and “elicit the jury’s sympathy and outrage”.
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