NEW YORK - Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud trial has featured dense testimony about computer code, cryptocurrency and corporate finance, but U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan's dry sense of humor has provided the occasional moment of levity.
When one prospective juror said they did not understand how cryptocurrency works, Kaplan said, "You probably have a lot of company in this courtroom." When another told him they had slight hearing loss, Kaplan said, "You're not the only one here with slight hearing loss, at my age." "You've been over this already six ways to Sunday, and you got your answer," Kaplan said, outside the jury's earshot. "The goal here is not to set a record for the longest trial."
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