Practical realities such as the government providing the defense a list of over 50 potential witnesses, thousands of pages of material and more than 1,300 exhibits, argue for a temporary release, the lawyers said. They added that they didn’t know which witnesses the government would call or in which order and so would not be able to prepare for the “next day’s witnesses and exhibits in the hours when we are not sitting in the courtroom.”
Source: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/09/26/sam-bankman-fried-refiles-for-temporary-release-ahead-of-trial/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines