According to CNN, was found guilty yesterday. But won't be sentenced for another 5 months.

Can someone from explain that delay? It seems like an excessive amount of time to me.


edition.cnn.com/2023/11/02/bus

@LouisIngenthron

I'm not LawFedi, but 5 months' separation is pretty normal. It gives time for BoP to prepare their pre-sentencing report, gives time for defense and prosecution to put together their sentencing request briefs, gives time for any post-conviction deals to happen. But this defendant will remain behind bars during, regardless.

@artemesia @LouisIngenthron And almost certainly a motion for a new trial. Those are pretty common, though they're almost never granted, but they're often kind of a preview of the appeal.

In any event, there's no particular rush. Mr. Bankman-Fried is in a local jail right now; after the sentencing he'll be in a federal prison. If there were any chance at all that the sentencing might result in him being released, he'd have a good reason to want to expedite it, but there isn't. Pre-sentencing incarceration time is subtracted from the post-sentencing time, so all the five month means, from his point of view, is that he'll spend five less months in whatever prison he's assigned to.

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