Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) and his lawyers do not seem to have made any headways in their defense, as the second week of the defendant’s trial ends on October 13. The highlight of how their case has gone so far was again on display when Mark Cohen stepped forward to cross-examine Caroline Ellison on October 12.
FTX Founder’s Lawyers Fail To Establish Anything On Cross-Examination
During cross-examination, the first thing Cohen did was ask Ellison if SBF was correct about some of the things he had told her in a bid to establish that Sam Bankman-Fried wasn’t wrong about some of the decisions he made. However, the prosecution rebutted on the grounds of relevance. Ellison still proceeded to answer the question but in a non-definite way.
After that, Cohen seemed to lose the plot as he began asking questions irrelevant to the case or failing to prove Sam Bankman-Fried’s innocence. Some of the questions he asked related to how Sam Bankman-Fried and Ellison reacted to stress differently, and another related to their different styles.
On one occasion, Cohen put a question forward to Ellison as to whether or not SBF was willing to take on more business risk than her, which she answered in the affirmative. Although it is unclear what the defense was trying to establish with that question, such a line of questioning could be…
