Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of a cryptocurrency exchange company by the name of FTX, has already sent in a formal appeal request that has the intent of having his previous sentence of 25 years and subsequent conviction be overturned.
The party of the case was advised about the appeal on April 11 to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and exactly one week and six days after his sentencing was handed to him.
Sam Bankman-Fried initiates appeal on conviction and sentence
Bankman-Fried’s attorneys, from the Shapiro Arato Bach LLP law firm headed by Alexandra Shapiro, have instead started with the appeal process which will go all the way up to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
This is now followed up by the recent ruling being entered on March 2024 ultimately the Bankman-Fried got convicted on all seven felony counts – fraud and conspiracy – before a jury led by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan.
The question, however is the appeal as to the conviction or the sentence or to both, suggesting an all embracing challenge of the prior procedure and the outcome. The appeal does not cite the reasons on which it is based as the ground of the appeal is yet to be put forth at the Appellate Court itself.
Consequences for the legal and financial realm.
The present appeal is unique among other issues which have been given attention by the case. It now ignites issues of corporate governance, regulatory authority and the volatile nature of crypto-finances.
The result of this appeal is led to convince others of how the upcoming regulatory frameworks and legal measures for the cryptocurrencies and financial technology sector could evolve.
The appeal will, therefore, go to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, a court of three judges, who will hear the case after a review of it. The defendant’s choice between affirming the existing conviction and sentence, reversing them or even re-trialing may institute a specific legal precedent that could be utilized by subsequent cases where similar circumstances may apply.
The financial community together with the legal experts are paying close attention to this case due to the implications and callbacks it calls on for better regulatory practices and enforcement of laws and given the dynamics and progress of the tech and finance sectors.
It is highly probable that ruling of the Second Circuit the case will bring the rest of the digital finance sector and corporate sphere to the table and open up for new forms of responsibility among them.
