Less than a week before Sam Bankman-Fried faces one of the biggest white-collar crime cases in US history, his lawyers are taking one more shot at getting him out of a Brooklyn jail.
They are preparing to go in front of a judge Thursday, five days before his Oct. 3 trial, to argue they face continued challenges in preparing his defense.
“In a case this complex, defense counsel believe that we will be unable to properly represent our client at his upcoming trial unless we are able to confer with him and prepare for the next day’s witnesses and exhibits in the hours when we are not sitting in the courtroom,” lawyers Mark Cohen and Christian Everdell said in a late night letter to Kaplan.
But his lawyers continue to press for his release as they have for the last six weeks, arguing that the aging Metropolitan Detention Center doesn’t have the kind of internet or computer facilities needed for the review of millions of documents. “We all have to sit there with our clients if there are no conference rooms available,” said criminal defense lawyer Susan Kellman, whose clients have included mobsters, drug dealers and terrorists. “During some visiting hours there can be say 30 inmates in there, plus a wife, their children, little kids running around and someone’s crying, it’s chaos.
“Like anyone else, if it is true he has intimidated witnesses, at a certain point, he makes his own bed and he sleeps in it,” US Circuit Judge William Nardini said at the hearing.
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