Sam Bankman-Fried withdraws retrial motion. He believes he would not get a fair trial.

The laminitis of the collapsed crypto speech FTX said helium mightiness record for a retrial aft a determination connected his entreaty is ruled upon.

Apr 23, 2026, 11:26 a.m.

Sam Bankman-Fried, laminitis of collapsed crypto speech FTX, has withdrawn his petition for a retrial implicit uncertainty helium would get a just proceeding in a missive to the justice overseeing his case.

Bankman-Fried, who is serving a 25-year condemnation aft being convicted connected 7 counts of fraud and conspiracy tied to FTX’s 2022 collapse, said helium whitethorn renew the question aft his nonstop entreaty and a related petition for reassignment are decided.

The question for a caller proceedings was filed by his mother, Barbara Fried, claiming caller grounds successful the lawsuit would warrant a reset.

Bankman-Fried said helium mostly drafted the question himself portion detained astatine the Metropolitan Detention Center successful Brooklyn, with constricted assistance.

Although clarifying helium is the “author of the letter” to the judge, helium did consult his lawyers and his parents “since it concerns them both,” helium said.

"They made editorial and organizational suggestions, immoderate of which I incorporated into the motion," Bankman-Fried said. "They besides helped people it, arsenic I nary longer had entree to a connection processor. I besides shared earlier drafts with a New York lawyer who was primitively hired to correspond maine connected the Rule 33 Motion earlier I decided to correspond myself; they had nary important input into the eventual motion."

A Rule 33 question is simply a ceremonial petition to a national tribunal for a caller proceedings based connected caller grounds oregon successful the involvement of justice.

The entreaty is presently before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. During oral arguments successful November, his attorney, Alexandra Shapiro, argued that the proceedings was “fundamentally unfair,” including limits placed connected what Bankman-Fried could contiguous to the jury.