Tornado Cash co-creator Roman Storm, facing 45 years behind bars, could move for a mistrial after claiming that a scam victim’s testimony wasn’t connected to the crypto mixer.
Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm’s lawyers might ask for a mistrial over a government witness they claim had nothing to do with the crypto mixer.
Storm’s defence floated the idea of a mistrial with Manhattan federal judge Katherine Polk Failla on Monday, questioning the testimony of government witness Hanfeng Lin on Tuesday, Inner City Press reported.
If allowed, a mistrial ruling would see Storm’s trial considered invalid due to a judicial error — which in this case could be evidence that should have been excluded — and it could be dismissed in its entirety or retried with a new judge and jury.
