[SBF Legal Team Appeals to Overturn Fraud Conviction and Accuses Judge of Bias] FTX co-founder SBF (Sam Bankman-Fried) filed an appeal on Tuesday with the appellate court to overturn his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence. The legal team accused Judge Lewis Kaplan of repeatedly favoring the prosecution during the trial, obstructing the defense, and leading to SBF being 'presumed guilty' following the 2022 FTX collapse. The lawyers claimed that the judge influenced the verdict by pressuring the jury and mocking SBF's testimony, and they requested a retrial and a change of judge. Additionally, the legal team plans to argue that the judge wrongly prohibited SBF from explaining to the jury that FTX had the ability to repay debts, while allowing the prosecution to accuse him of misappropriating customer funds. The SBF team emphasized that he had no intention of deceiving customers and stated that his actions followed the advice of FTX's legal counsel. SBF is currently serving his sentence in California and is not expected to attend the hearing.