One Year Later, Lyn Ulbricht Still Fights for Her Son's Freedom
A year on from the arrest of Silk Road's alleged founder, CoinDesk takes a look at the life of Lyn Ulbricht, mother of accused Silk Road leader Ross Ulbricht. For Lyn Ulbricht, mother of alleged Silk Road ringleader Ross William Ulbricht, it's been an intense year. It's 1st October 2014, 365 days after her son was taken into custody by federal agents at a San Francisco public library, brought to prison and paraded on magazines. To Lyn, the day is the dawn of a different lifetime. One year later, Lyn is upbeat, sounding energetic at times, exhausted at others, prone to long sighs though....
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Judge Katherine Forrest. Ross Ulbricht asked last week U. S. District Judge Katherine Forrest to spare him life in prison, admitting the Silk Road website was a "naive and costly idea" that destroyed his future. The 31-year-old Ulbricht expressed his regrets in a letter to Forrest, who is scheduled to sentence him May 29. Ulbricht faces a mandatory minimum 20 years in prison and a maximum of life. "Silk Road was supposed to be about giving people the freedom to make their own choices, to pursue their own happiness, however they individually saw fit," Ulbricht wrote to Forrest. "What it....
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