Shaky FBI Evidence may lead to Ross Ulbricht Case Dismissal
The Silk Road trial of founder Ross Ulbricht in New York is gathering a lot of media attention. Negative attention for any Bitcoin-related issues is not uncommon in the mainstream, but RT America has discovered some issues with the prosecution's case that could easily favor an acquittal for Ross Ulbricht. Screenshots and Hacks are what FBI brings to the Table. Many people are looking closely at the case for the precedents it can set due to how the FBI secured its evidence against Ross Ulbricht. Considering the fact that they hacked the Silk Road website without a warrant to take....
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Earlier this week, I opined the idea of an eventual dismissal of the government's case against Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht due to shaky evidence and tactics by authorities. A bunch of screenshots and forum conversations with unknown persons, claimed to be Ulbricht, is pretty flimsy evidence from where I sit. Silk Road Trial Hinges on a Stolen Laptop. At the criminal trial in New York, FBI agent Tom Kiernan was on the stand, and an item called "Government Exhibit 200" was added to the proceedings. This item happened to be a Samsung 700z laptop in plastic wrap. Kiernan told prosecutor,....
There have been a few developments in the Silk Road case, and we will cover the main findings regarding the ongoing trial including Ross Ulbricht. The main change in the Ross Ulbricht case is the evidence presented by the FBI. The most important object was Ross Ulbricht’s laptop that was shown to have a digital journal that depicted his involvement in Silk Road as well as creating it. The information found in the journal is very extensive and quite interesting. He begins depicting his past. A man broken by heartbreak and the lack of opportunities. He is shown to be desperate:
The New York City prosecutors' evidence against Ross Ulbricht has been released in the build up to the January 2015 Silk Road Trial. Ulbricht stands accused of being Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR), the head of Silk Road, one of the first in a long line of underground Deep Web/Dark Net marketplaces that rely on technology and cryptography to function. Though it has been over a year since the arrest of Ross Ulbricht at the beginning of October in 2013, the list of evidence that will be used by the Silk Road prosecutors in the January trial was obtained recently by the Daily Dot. Ross Ulbricht's....
Ross Ulbricht’s defense team has uncovered more proof of evidence tampering in the Silk Road case undermining his life sentence. Evidence Tampering a ‘Travesty of Justice’. Ross Ulbricht’s legal team has announced finding more proof of evidence tampering. A previously unknown copy of the Silk Road forum database clearly shows that someone with access to the site deleted significant portions of evidence, according to Ulbricht’s lawyers. This revelation adds another layer of complexity to a case already riddled with corruption of law enforcement agents who “broke bad” and were convicted for....
The U.S. Marshals have auctioned off the second group of Bitcoin seized from the Silk Road underground marketplace and its alleged owner today. As we reported yesterday, the auction consisted of 50,000 Bitcoins, allegedly from the Silk Road's servers and from Ross Ulbricht, the man accused of running the Silk Road, computer. According to Reuters, the coins were auctioned off with permission from Ulbricht and his lawyer. If Ulbricht is found innocent the funds that came from his computer will be returned to him in cash value, otherwise they will be seized as proceeds of the crime. The news....