Sam Bankman-Fried, the former crypto mogul who was convicted of defrauding investors by secretly diverting billions of dollars of their money, asked the Supreme Court on Thursday for a new trial and to throw out a court order requiring him to pay $11 billion as part of his sentence.
How does this even involve SCOTUS?
Well, in theory anybody is allowed to petition the Supreme Court to arbitrate their case if they feel all the lower courts they where dealt with below it did them wrong, and the Supreme Court reviews the case and decides to take it or not.
In theory.
In practice, the court’s clerks will not even read your petition unless your case is exceptionally complex, very public, you’re a billionaire or you’re an orange fascist dementia patient.
The clerks like motor coaches too