Sam Bankman-Fried will ‘return to his depression’ without access to medication, say defense lawyers

The authorized group defending Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) towards legal expenses has requested a federal decide permit the previous FTX CEO to have entry to antidepressants whereas in jail.

In an Aug. 14 court docket submitting, Bankman-Fried’s legal professionals offered Choose Lewis Kaplan a proposed order which, if permitted, would permit the 31-year-old to use a transdermal patch with treatment throughout his time behind bars. In response to a letter offered by Dr. George Lerner, SBF has been below psychiatric care since February 2019 and “has a historical past of Main Depressive Dysfunction and Consideration Deficit Hyperactivity Dysfunction (ADHD)”.

In response to Dr. Lerner, SBF has been prescribed the antidepressant selegiline below the model identify Emsam to deal with melancholy and Adderall for his ADHD. Legal professionals have requested Kaplan make sure the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn have the medicines stocked in the course of Bankman-Fried’s keep in jail, as “he was solely capable of deliver a small provide of the above-described medicines” following the decide revoking his bail on Aug. 11.

“With out the aforementioned psychiatric medicines […] Mr. Bankman-Fried will expertise a return of his melancholy and ADHD signs and might be severely negatively impacted in his capability to help in his personal protection,” stated Dr. Lerner.

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Legal professionals who represented Bankman-Fried throughout his preliminary arrest within the Bahamas in December 2022 reported similar medical requirements, saying on the time SBF hadn’t been taking sure treatment whereas in jail. Following extradition to the US, Bankman-Fried was launched on a $250-million bond and sure had entry to medical care whereas largely confined to his mother and father’ California house.

Bankman-Fried had been free on bail for 235 days earlier than Kaplan remanded him to custody on Aug. 11, citing considerations about alleged makes an attempt to intimidate or affect witnesses in his legal case. He faces 12 counts associated to fraud at FTX, which might be unfold throughout two trials scheduled to start in October 2023 and March 2024.

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