SBF Seeks New Trial, Blaming Federal Judge for Ridiculing Him

Jailed FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried is asking for a new trial, blaming a federal judge for preventing him from mounting a proper defense.

Lawyers for the former chief executive officer argued “everyone rushed to judgment” after FTX’s collapse and that fair-trial principles were swept away in a “sentence first-verdict afterwards tsunami,” according to a brief Friday in the 2nd Circuit US Court of Appeals in New York.

“When the government introduces evidence, defendants have the right to rebut that evidence and present their side of the story,” defense lawyers wrote. “But none of that happened here.”

Bankman-Fried was convicted in ...