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Re:Unsealed Transcript Shows How a Judge Justified Ross Ulbr... by clamprecht on Monday October 05, 2015 @05:47PM (#10335229)
Ok, then I was misinformed on Ross's case, if he was convicted for the murder conspiracy. I don't know first-hand what happened in his case. I do know first-hand what happened in my case (and in many of cases of friends) where the US Attorney (the prosecutor) misled the court or outright lied, or had a witness lie, to get the defendant a higher sentence. They do it so routinely that it casts doubt on all cases now (for me, at least).
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Re:Unsealed Transcript Shows How a Judge Justified Ross Ulbr... by trhway on Monday October 05, 2015 @06:51PM (#10335576)
>if he was convicted for the murder conspiracy

he wasn't. Alleged murders, without ever being tried before court, were used to cause sentence enhancement. All the "evidence" and "testimony" for the murder charges weren't even enough to sustain the charges, less bring them for trial. At the time of the conviction, it wasn't known that the agents were corrupt and thus, not surprisingly, the Judge gave their testimonies all the possible weight and came down that hard on the Ulbricht.

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Re:Unsealed Transcript Shows How a Judge Justified Ross Ulbr... by trhway on Monday October 05, 2015 @11:23PM (#10336574)
>At the time of the conviction, it wasn't known that the agents were corrupt and thus, not surprisingly, the Judge gave their testimonies all the possible weight and came down that hard on the Ulbricht.

stand corrected. Judge did know that the agent was corrupted. The murder-for-hire allegations used at the sentencing didn't even have as much as a testimony of corrupt agent behind them.

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Re:Unsealed Transcript Shows How a Judge Justified Ross Ulbr... by tptacek on Monday October 05, 2015 @05:52PM (#10335257)
I can't possibly blame you. You were also sentenced during a period of hysteria about computer crime. It must have sucked a lot.

I might be biased, since ToneLoc is what got me started programming.

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