Life in prison is a lot, I think they made example from this guy for anyone who wish to take his place. That is how governments work, and if someone doesn`t pay tax they are even more hard with sentences.
Its normally that he is trying to get out from there, or at least lower his sentence. His wish for new trial maybe didn`t pass this time, but he has other options I think. And maybe with some new evidences he can do more. I also don`t think he deserved to spend his life in jail, his actions are not so evil.
Topic: Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison (Read 50169 times)
I was just wondering how Ross Ulbricht is and if there are any updates in his case. I think it is overkill what the American government did/is doing to him. There are far more ruthless criminals that should be put to jail. One example is the banksters who caused the 2008 financial crisis. They should go to prison, instead they were bailed out by the American government. That is funny.
Free Ross.
Free Ross.
The only real update is when he farts now it doesn't go Paaarrp it goes whoosh. Oh, he's also gained weight, about 1.5 lbs of black meat.
I was just wondering how Ross Ulbricht is and if there are any updates in his case. I think it is overkill what the American government did/is doing to him. There are far more ruthless criminals that should be put to jail. One example is the banksters who caused the 2008 financial crisis. They should go to prison, instead they were bailed out by the American government. That is funny.
Free Ross.
Free Ross.
Silk Road Prosecutors Argue Ross Ulbricht Doesn't Deserve a New Trial
Read more at https://www.wired.com/2016/06/silk-road-prosecutors-argue-ross-ulbricht-doesnt-deserve-new-trial/.
Note that Ulbricht hasn't expended all his options. Any time, even from prison after the final sentencing, he can rescind all his signatures off anything he signed for the courts, and demand harm or damage be shown, and a man or woman come forward and show how he was the one that did the harm or damage to them - http://voidjudgments.com/. If he has Karl Lentz's help (http://www.broadmind.org/), he will win, even though it might seem like an uphill battle for a while.
Quote from: https://www.wired.com/2016/06/silk-road-prosecutors-argue-ross-ulbricht-doesnt-deserve-new-trial/
Now the prosecution has responded with its own, equally massive document rebutting those arguments one by one, an attempt to put the final seal on the fate of the man behind the dark web's most notorious black market.
In a 186-page brief filed Friday evening, the prosecutors rehash much of Ulbricht's 11-day trial early last year and defend repeated decisions by Judge Katherine Forrest in the prosecution's favor—a series of moves to suppress defense evidence, deny defense witnesses, and admit prosecution evidence that led Ulbricht's attorneys to call for a mistrial no less than five times. But perhaps the most notable rebuttal concerns the controversy over the role of two corrupt federal agents who used their roles in the investigation to extort and steal money from the Silk Road, and whose involvement was kept entirely secret from the jury—and to some extent even from Ulbricht's defense—during his trial.
Here are the prosecution's most important arguments.
Argument: Criminal Feds Are Irrelevant
As the defense outlined in its appeal, DEA agent Carl Mark Force and Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges both abused their access to the Silk Road in insanely egregious ways: Bridges used an informant's account to steal $800,000 in bitcoins from the site, while Force attempted to blackmail Ulbricht using one pseudonym while selling him law enforcement information using another. The defense has argued that it wasn't told about the full extent of Force's misbehavior until the trial concluded, and wasn't told about Bridges' role at all.
In a 186-page brief filed Friday evening, the prosecutors rehash much of Ulbricht's 11-day trial early last year and defend repeated decisions by Judge Katherine Forrest in the prosecution's favor—a series of moves to suppress defense evidence, deny defense witnesses, and admit prosecution evidence that led Ulbricht's attorneys to call for a mistrial no less than five times. But perhaps the most notable rebuttal concerns the controversy over the role of two corrupt federal agents who used their roles in the investigation to extort and steal money from the Silk Road, and whose involvement was kept entirely secret from the jury—and to some extent even from Ulbricht's defense—during his trial.
Here are the prosecution's most important arguments.
Argument: Criminal Feds Are Irrelevant
As the defense outlined in its appeal, DEA agent Carl Mark Force and Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges both abused their access to the Silk Road in insanely egregious ways: Bridges used an informant's account to steal $800,000 in bitcoins from the site, while Force attempted to blackmail Ulbricht using one pseudonym while selling him law enforcement information using another. The defense has argued that it wasn't told about the full extent of Force's misbehavior until the trial concluded, and wasn't told about Bridges' role at all.
Read more at https://www.wired.com/2016/06/silk-road-prosecutors-argue-ross-ulbricht-doesnt-deserve-new-trial/.
Note that Ulbricht hasn't expended all his options. Any time, even from prison after the final sentencing, he can rescind all his signatures off anything he signed for the courts, and demand harm or damage be shown, and a man or woman come forward and show how he was the one that did the harm or damage to them - http://voidjudgments.com/. If he has Karl Lentz's help (http://www.broadmind.org/), he will win, even though it might seem like an uphill battle for a while.
Yeah was it 15 or 25-life? No way he got life without parole that is just insanity! I mean he had a damn website he wasn't out molesting and killing people.
Federal crimes no longer have parole. Congress did away with parole in the late 80's. A sentence in federal court of life means you are going to die in prison.
wow that just sucks
It does suck but it was designed to give convicted felons no hope and in doing so curb illegal behavior. The fact that the elimination of parole has had zero success in curbing the crime rate is beside the point.
Why is it "beside the point"?
Do you think victimless crimes should still land people in jail?
Why?
Sarcasm doesn't transmit well in written form.
The state of the criminal justice system in the US is being questioned seriously in current politics. Things change very slowly in the United States when they do change. So, if the draconian sentencing scheme is going to change, it probably wont affect Ross' sentence until long after he's dead anyway. The United States has more people in prison per capita then any other nation in the world....period....the prison system is an industry in the US. People who've been proven to be innocent many years ago are still being held in custody....It doesn't make sense to fight it with rhetoric....the prison industry drives a large part of the economy in the US so sound reasoning will lose out to greedy capitalists there. We should all be happy that there are people like Ross willing to do life in prison to drive the economy for the rest of us!
in the mean time, OpenBazaar is opened and it's acting like SilkRoad. 
Has it gone full drugs already?
No, that's a massive over-exaggeration. I've seen a couple of dodgy listings on there but they had been taken down the last time I checked. The revolution shall not be OB'd
Indeed, well that is a good thing for now, chance to let it develop.
in the mean time, OpenBazaar is opened and it's acting like SilkRoad.
Has it gone full drugs already?
No, that's a massive over-exaggeration. I've seen a couple of dodgy listings on there but they had been taken down the last time I checked. The revolution shall not be OB'd
Wow I think that is a pretty high sentence for someone that just made a website on the deepweb.
I think he is not the one that only had the power over the account...
I think he is not the one that only had the power over the account...
OB will totally go dark net soon.
in the mean time, OpenBazaar is opened and it's acting like SilkRoad.
Lol is just a matter of time before OB goes full on Drugs/fraud stuff. The Silk Road Ulbricht dreamed of is dead, waaaaaaaaaaay dead.
We'll probably see something like silk road happen in the next few months, for right now we just have to wait and see.
Yeah was it 15 or 25-life? No way he got life without parole that is just insanity! I mean he had a damn website he wasn't out molesting and killing people.
Federal crimes no longer have parole. Congress did away with parole in the late 80's. A sentence in federal court of life means you are going to die in prison.
wow that just sucks
It does suck but it was designed to give convicted felons no hope and in doing so curb illegal behavior. The fact that the elimination of parole has had zero success in curbing the crime rate is beside the point.
Why is it "beside the point"?
Do you think victimless crimes should still land people in jail?
Why?
Sarcasm doesn't transmit well in written form.
in the mean time, OpenBazaar is opened and it's acting like SilkRoad.
Lol is just a matter of time before OB goes full on Drugs/fraud stuff. The Silk Road Ulbricht dreamed of is dead, waaaaaaaaaaay dead.
Yeah was it 15 or 25-life? No way he got life without parole that is just insanity! I mean he had a damn website he wasn't out molesting and killing people.
Federal crimes no longer have parole. Congress did away with parole in the late 80's. A sentence in federal court of life means you are going to die in prison.
wow that just sucks
It does suck but it was designed to give convicted felons no hope and in doing so curb illegal behavior. The fact that the elimination of parole has had zero success in curbing the crime rate is beside the point.
Why is it "beside the point"?
Do you think victimless crimes should still land people in jail?
Why?
Was watching a story on vice about gangs in Trinidad and the gang guys get 20 years right off the bat for being gangsters,so they rather die than get caught.
So its made the issue more dire,sometimes tougher laws make things very black and white for the crinimal like a 3 strike system.
So its made the issue more dire,sometimes tougher laws make things very black and white for the crinimal like a 3 strike system.
Yeah was it 15 or 25-life? No way he got life without parole that is just insanity! I mean he had a damn website he wasn't out molesting and killing people.
Federal crimes no longer have parole. Congress did away with parole in the late 80's. A sentence in federal court of life means you are going to die in prison.
wow that just sucks
It does suck but it was designed to give convicted felons no hope and in doing so curb illegal behavior. The fact that the elimination of parole has had zero success in curbing the crime rate is beside the point.
not full but there are offers.
in the mean time, OpenBazaar is opened and it's acting like SilkRoad.
Has it gone full drugs already?
in the mean time, OpenBazaar is opened and it's acting like SilkRoad.
Ross Ullbricht is sentenced to life in prison without parole. In my opinion, if Ross gets a chance to escape from the prison, he should do it. Even if he gets caught, it will make no difference to his prison term. Rapist, murderers will be free from prison but he has to spend the rest of his life in prison
This is very unfair and I think the BTC world just lost one of our own here.
I think the stronger message is that bitcoin was able to survive without all the darkweb transactions. And that's positive.
darkweb sustains Bitcoin as it is
dark market +darkweb = +90% from Bitcoin.
you will say that someone may use BTC for trading. I rather trade gold which is a regulated market and the earnings are much higher(losses the same) than shit Bitcoin
)Bitcoin is mainly use for illegal things as ponzi schemes, illegal forex, drugs, credit card frauds, fake IDs and so on.
yea a lot bitcoin people use bitcoin for a illegal payment before because anonymity yup
but now btc already really popular
With no doubt people still are using bitcoin for anonymous illegal activities. Maybe not as much as they used to, now that bitcoin has recieved alot of attention. They've probably moved to bytecoin or something even more anonymous.
Nothing on a blockchain is anonymous. This is one thing we all now know.
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