Every competent lawyer I've seen interviewed in newspapers hedges with something like "it's hard to predict / lots of potential factors". One thing's clear, is

Every competent lawyer I've seen interviewed in newspapers hedges with something like "it's hard to predict / lots of potential factors". One thing's clear, is that the scale of SBF's crimes max out the offense level of the federal sentencing guidelines. So there's no upper limit to the sentence: it's rather a question of how many mitigating factors can be found to push things downwards. e.g. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/05/sam-bankman-fried-could-face-years-in-prison-over-ftx-meltdown.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/05/sam-bankman-fried-could-face...