The judges in a federal appeals court in New York on Tuesday were skeptical of arguments by a lawyer for Sam Bankman-Fried that his conviction for a multi-billion-dollar fraud related to his cryptocurrency exchange FTX and an associated hedge fund should be tossed out.

Bankman-Fried's attorney, Alexandra Shapiro, was almost immediately and then repeatedly interrupted by the three-judge panel on the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals as she tried to make her case that SBF deserved a new trial because the first one was "fundamentally unfair."

"From my reading of the record, [there was] very substantial evidence of guilt," Judge Barringon Parker told Shapiro.

"Are you seriously suggesting to us that if your client had been able to testify about the role that attorneys played in pr

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