He who represents himself, as Abraham Lincoln once may have said, has a fool for a client. Will that apply to the notorious Sam Bankman-Fried, too? In early February, the disgraced crypto mogul drafted his own legal brief, presumably from his prison cell in San Pedro, California, requesting that the Southern District of New York grant him a new trial. He has also asked that Judge Lewis Kaplan “recuse himself” from a potential new trial because, Sam wrote, referring to himself in the third person, of “the manifest prejudice he has demonstrated towards Mr. Bankman-Fried.” The brief is very well written, and also pretty damn convincing. I hope S.D.N.Y. grants him a new trial.