缺席开审,「Do Kwon案」首日开庭都发生了什么?

Odaily星球日报Опубліковано о 2024-03-26Востаннє оновлено о 2024-03-26

Анотація

庭审周期预计持续两周,当庭遴选出 9 名陪审员,均不持有加密货币。

原文作者:Zack Guzmán

原文编译:Frank,Foresight News

编者注:美国曼哈顿监管机构于当地时间周一开庭审判 Terra 及其联合创始人 Do Kwon 案件,但 Do Kwon 由于已于 3 月 23 日转移至黑山外国人「接待中心」等待最终引渡决定,故缺席该审判。

美国证券交易委员会(SEC)诉 Do Kwon/Terra 一案今天在美国曼哈顿法庭正式开审,本文节选出了陪审团以及美 SEC 和辩护团队的开庭陈词(加上 Rakoff 法官提供的一些非常搞笑的材料)。

这也是我自 SBF 庭审以来第一次回到法院,我发现人数相比 SBF 一案少得多——因为我虽然迟到了,但仍有座位。

只不过最明显的区别:法庭里全都穿着西装。

陪审员遴选

Rakoff 法官从一开始就制定了基本规则:

  • 整个庭审周期预计需要两周时间;

  • 只允许最多使用 4 个单词表示异议;

「你唯一能让我生气的方法就是迅速提出反对意见,你只需说三个字:Objection、 lack of foundation,好吧,也许我可以容忍你延长到四个单词」。

关于如何解释 Do Kwon 没有亲自出席庭审的原因,双方进行了一些小规模的争论,直到 Rakoff 法官问道:「你真的希望我说他因在国外而没空参与么?这可能会引起陪审团猜测」。

辩方对此表示同意(众所周知,Do Kwon 因伪造护照而服刑,目前仍在黑山)。

陪审团遴选开始了,随着大家对陪审员的了解越来越多,双方轮流罢免陪审员(Foresight News 注,法庭会在当地居民中随机抽选出数倍于最后所需人数的候选陪审团,每个候选人会被简要告知案件背景,并在法庭上接受律师和法官约 30 分钟的延伸提问,法官要找能在审判过程中中性、公平、开明地看待各方,根据证据和法律作出判断的陪审员,律师们也希望任选这样的陪审员,但他们也会排除那些固有观念可能会对自己客户不利的候选人)。

起初,有很多女性陪审员,最终第一批陪审团包括 6 名女性和 3 名男性,其中大部分是少数族裔:

在这 3 名男性中,一个已经离婚,一个正在进行一起未决的人身伤害诉讼案件,还有一个有一个女朋友.....他们中没有人拥有加密货币,这也解释了为什么那个离婚的陪审员穿着 NFL 纽约巨人队的夹克衫(Foresight News 注,FTXZ 曾在美国国家橄榄球联盟 NFL 超级碗期间投放商业广告)。

Rakoff 法官开玩笑说他也是纽约巨人队的粉丝——「这就是为什么我穿黑色,因为我在哀悼」这个笑话让全庭大笑,只不过一个纽约体育幽默段子出现在一场涉及韩国公司的审判中,让韩国媒体感到非常困惑。

有意思的是,一名男子说他在比特币和以太坊上花了数千美元,但没有投资 Terra 系代币,结果仍被驳回,没能成为陪审员;另一个女孩说她是一起假钞案件的陪审员,该案由于缺乏主观意图而无法定罪,但具有讽刺意味的是她也被驳回,没能成为陪审员。

开庭陈词

开庭陈词中,Rakoff 法官明确指出:

  • Terraform Labs(TFL)是否误导性地使用了 Chai 来代表 Terra?

  • TFL 是否对 UST 与美元挂钩的原因进行了误导?

控辩双方都有 30 分钟的陈述时间。

美 SEC 首先进行,只不过他们的论点几乎是将司法部诉 SBF 和 FTX 一案的内容复制粘贴过来,尤其是开场白和结束语几乎是逐字逐句的相同:

「这是一起有关欺诈的案件」、「这次审判不涉及技术」。

而辩方的开庭陈词直接摘自 Do Kwon 在此前采访中披露的内容:「失败并不等于欺诈」(延伸阅读《对话 Terra 创始人:我赌上了全部,但这次我输了》)。

律师最后还对美 SEC 挑选事实和嘲笑证词的行为进行了强烈谴责,且表明 Chai 确实使用了 Terra。

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