These are some of the questions FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried wants a judge overseeing his fraud trial to ask jurors before they are selected to decide his guilt or innocence next month.
“If a company involved in the cryptocurrency industry or the financial industry fails, do you feel that only the owners of the company must be to blame?” one suggested question stated. Other questions would ask jurors what they’ve read about FTX and Bankman-Fried, if they’ve never traded crypto, if it’s wrong to contribute large amounts of money to political candidates and if they have any experience with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.Bankman-Fried takes ADHD medication and his lawyers, according to the filing, want the jury to know that the condition can affect “his physical behavior, body language or eye contact.
The judge will exclude people whose answers show they can’t be fair. Then prosecutors and defense attorneys will be given a fixed number of challenges to dismiss jurors they think won’t be favorable.