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NEW YORK, Aug 18 (Reuters) – Attorneys for Sam Bankman-Fried on Friday rejected as “fully insufficient” the U.S. authorities's plan for letting the jailed founding father of the collapsed FTX cryptocurrency alternate put together for his October fraud trial.
In a letter to U.S. District Decide Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan, the legal professionals mentioned giving Bankman-Fried simply two days every week, and not using a devoted pc, to assessment the “extraordinary quantity” of proof violated his Sixth Modification constitutional proper to efficient counsel and help his protection.
They mentioned it additionally undermined Kaplan's expectation that Bankman-Fried would get at the very least 9 hours a day to assessment proof, and left their consumer no method to share supplies with them by Google Docs or electronic mail.
“That is fully insufficient and Mr. Bankman-Fried won't be able to meaningfully take part in his protection, as is his proper underneath the Sixth Modification,” the legal professionals mentioned.
Bankman-Fried's legal professionals requested that he be allowed to fulfill with them 5 days every week on the Manhattan federal courthouse in preparation for the Oct. 2 trial. He's being held on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn, New York.
A spokesman for U.S. Lawyer Damian Williams in Manhattan declined remark.
Prosecutors had in a letter earlier Friday informed Kaplan that federal marshals had provided “extraordinary lodging” on the Brooklyn jail, reflecting the amount of supplies and the trial schedule.
Each letters redacted among the proposed lodging, which prosecutors mentioned was wanted due to safety considerations.
Prosecutors have accused Bankman-Fried of stealing billions of {dollars} from FTX prospects to prop up a separate hedge fund, conduct dangerous trades, purchase property and make political donations.
The 31-year-old former billionaire has pleaded not responsible. He might be arraigned on Aug. 22 on the latest model of his indictment, which has seven fraud and conspiracy prices.
Kaplan revoked Bankman-Fried's bail on Aug. 11, discovering possible trigger to imagine Bankman-Fried broke the legislation by attempting to affect witnesses who're anticipated to testify in opposition to him.
Bankman-Fried had been underneath home arrest at his mother and father' residence in Palo Alto, California.
The Brooklyn jail, with about 1,549 inmates, has been affected by situations that public defenders have referred to as “inhumane.”
A federal decide advised in 2021 that the jail and a now-closed federal jail in Manhattan had been “run by morons.”
Bankman-Fried's legal professionals beforehand represented Ghislaine Maxwell, the previous girlfriend of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who complained for months that she couldn't put together successfully within the Brooklyn jail for her intercourse trafficking trial.
Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York, Enhancing by Rosalba O'Brien
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