Ross Ulbricht’s Trial: Did Prosecution Suppress Evidence?
The alleged involvement of another corrupt agent in the investigation of Ross Ulbricht and the Silk Road raises questions about evidence suppression. The closure of Silk Road followed by Ross Ulbricht’s arrest and conviction has been one of the high-profile cases in the history of Bitcoin. The involvement of corrupt agents in the investigation created a backlash to the agencies involved in the Silk Road investigation namely, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the US Secret Service. After two agents, Carl Force (DEA) and Shawn Bridges (Secret Service) were found guilty of....
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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 U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has denied Ross Ulbricht’s appeal of a life sentence for his role as the leader of the Silk Road online drug marketplace, according to a court filing. Circuit judges did not agree with Ulbricht’s claims that the district court erred in denying his motion to suppress evidence, that the court denied him a right to a fair trial and denied his motion for a new trial, and that his sentence is procedurally and substantially unreasonable. Silk Road, seized by the FBI in 2013, was considered the most sophisticated marketplace on the....
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....
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 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....