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 <li>Defense attorney David Mills labeled Bankman-Fried’s cross-examination as the most challenging he had ever seen.</li> 
 <li>The FTX founder reportedly deviated from the planned legal strategy during his testimony.</li> 
 <li>Mills acknowledged that even with a better performance by SBF, the jury might still have found him guilty.</li> 
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In the legal defense of Sam Bankman-Fried, attorney David Mills asserted that the founder of FTX exhibited the most challenging cross-examination performance he had ever witnessed. 
Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-12/sbf-defense-legal-architect-david-mills-says-ftx-trial-was-unwinnable?utm_source=telegram&amp;utm_content=crypto&amp;utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">reported</a> that Bankman-Fried “went off-script when he took the stand” and deviated from the lawyers’ planned strategy while testifying, particularly in the manner of answering the prosecutors during cross-examination. 
Despite Mills acknowledging that a better performance by SBF may not have altered the <a href="https://coinedition.com/sam-bankman-fried-convicted-guilty-on-seven-criminal-counts/">jury’s guilty verdict</a>, he pointed out that pre-trial rulings by the judge and the powerful testimony from prosecution witnesses made the case “practically unwinnable for the defense.” 
Mills, a professor at Stanford Law School, confirmed that he would not be involved in any appeal for FTX’s founder, emphasizing that his initial strategy aimed to convince t…
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