Sam Bankman-Fried got a practice run last week when Judge Lewis Kaplan sent jurors home on Thursday. In a rare hearing, SBF offered his initial testimony with no jurors present—so the judge could determine where there was sufficient cause to argue some of SBF’s planned defense before the jury.
It turns out SBF really needed that trial run, as some of SBF’s responses didn’t go over too well in the courtroom. My colleague Leo Schwartz relayed the details from the courtroom on Thursday:
