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A United States District Court has denied one of Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s pretrial defense motions. According to the court filing,<\/a> U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan dismissed SBF\u2019s Motion in Limine No. 1, which sought to bar the government from introducing evidence produced to the defense after July 1.<\/p>\n Earlier in August, SBF\u2019s defense team proposed a series of motions in limine. These included not only the now-rejected Motion No. 1 but also motions to exclude evidence pertaining to the bankruptcy of FTX, SBF\u2019s resignation from the company, and statements specific to FTX.US.<\/p>\n The recent denial of the first motion came on the heels of a controversial procedural dispute. SBF\u2019s legal team expressed outrage<\/a> over the sheer volume of discovery documents \u2014 totaling 7.7 million pages \u2014 released by the U.S. government. They described the late release of an additional 3.7 million pages as a violation of the agreed discovery timeline and called for court intervention to prevent further substantial document releases in light of the imminent trial.<\/p>\n While the court\u2019s recent ruling complicates the defense\u2019s strategy, SBF\u2019s legal team continues to emphasize the importance of his active participation in his defense. He currently awaits trial at the Metropolitan Detention Center, where he has been unable to review the evidence due to lack of access to the hard drive sent to the facility.<\/p>\n With the trial just six weeks away, SBF maintains his not-guilty plea, planning to argue that his actions were in good faith and based on legal advice.<\/p>\n The post U.S. court dismisses SBF\u2019s defense motion complicating pretrial strategy<\/a> appeared first on CryptoSlate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A United States District Court has denied one of Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s pretrial defense motions. According to the court filing, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan dismissed SBF\u2019s Motion in Limine No. 1, which sought to bar the government from introducing evidence produced to the defense after July 1. Earlier in August, SBF\u2019s defense team proposed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[230,225,221,227,226,228,229,60,223,224,222],"class_list":["post-145650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-brave","tag-coinbase","tag-crypto","tag-decentralised","tag-decentralized","tag-decentralized-exchange","tag-erc-20","tag-featured","tag-meme-coin","tag-robinhood","tag-solana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145651,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145650\/revisions\/145651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}