A 20+ Year Sentence? Why the Evidence Against SBF Was Too Hard to Overcome - Ep. 566
A defense lawyer and a former prosecutor discuss what SBF’s likely sentence will be, the defense’s hope for an appeal, and whether the government will pursue the second trial.

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In this episode of Unchained, Laura does a detailed unpacking of the historic Sam Bankman-Fried trial and verdict with defense lawyer Sam Enzer and former Southern District of New York prosecutor Rich Cooper. They discuss what a thorough job the government did in presenting its case, whether the government will pursue a second trial on campaign finance charges, why it takes so long for sentencing to occur, what the differences between this case and the Bernie Madoff case are, and what Bankman-Fried’s likely sentence will be.

Show highlights:
🔹 how the cross-examination of SBF showed to the jury that he was unreliable, according to Rich
🔹 why the charge conference with the jury is important to the prosecution for “protecting the record”
🔹why the closing argument of the prosecutors was so effective
🔹 what “conscious avoidance” is and how the prosecutors tried to prove that SBF was guilty of that
🔹 why SBF’s tweet last November that "FTX is fine" was the hardest part of the trial for the defense, according to Enzer
🔹 why Enzer wasn’t surprised by how quickly the jury made its decision
🔹 what SBF’s strongest argument is for an appeal
🔹 why Enzer "hopes" that there won't be a second trial against SBF and whether he will plead guilty to the additional charges
🔹 why the sentencing occurs so many months after the verdict
🔹 how this case is similar, but also different, from the Bernie Madoff case
🔹 how many years SBF could spend in prison, according to Enzer and Cooper
🔹 when cooperating witnesses such as Caroline Ellison, Nishad Singh, and Gary Wang are likely to get sentenced

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Guest:
⭐️Sam Enzer, partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel
⭐️Rich Cooper, Former SDNY prosecutor

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Time Stamps:
00:00 Introduction
02:37 Cross-examination of SBF
13:38 Sidebars
16:28 Charge conference
20:48 Possible challenges during an appeal
24:14 Closing arguments
32:48 SBF's infamous tweet
37:35 Verdict
44:00 Potential appeal and the second trial
54:29 Sentencing
1:16:00 American justice system


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