The scene: The Bahamas. A courtroom.
Judge: Sir, in a conditional arrest proceeding the first step is to establish identity. Do you admit or deny you are the same Sam Bankman-Fried charged in this indictment?

SBF: Yes I am the person who did all those things

Judge: No, I mean . . .

SBF: Each and every one

Judge: I think you . . .

SBF: Should I go paragraph by paragraph

@Popehat maybe his strategy his to be so incompetent, even in his own defence, that a jury will eventually come to the conclusion that he obviously didn’t know what he was doing the entire time 😅