Bankman-Fried was found guilty of fraud last year and will be sentenced on March 28.
Sam Bankman-Fried's defense team argued the U.S. Department of Justice was misapplying legal precedent in arguing for a lengthy prison term.
The DOJ urged a sentence of 40 to 50 years, as opposed to the defense's request for roughly 6 years, for the former FTX CEO
Lack of 'Melodrama' Is Surprising in Sam Bankman-Fried's Trial: Law Professor
Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyers have pushed back against some of the legal cases cited by the U.S. government in its sentencing memo, which makes the case for why the Department of Justice think the former FTX CEO should be handed a sentence in the range of 40-50 years, a court filing on Wednesday said.
Bankman-Fried's legal team already responded to the Department of Justice's memo in a letter earlier this week, arguing the DOJ was trying to make the former FTX CEO out to be a "super villain." In another letter Wednesday, the defense team took aim at some of the legal arguments presented by the prosecution..
One of the contentions appears to be about the interpretations of a "precedent-setting" U.S. Supreme Court case, Kisor v. Wilkie, which was at least in part about whether punishment should be based on intended loss or actual loss, the Wednesday filing said.
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