Re:Free Ross Ulbricht
by simias on Friday April 05, 2019 @08:16AM
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I get an error 500 on the website so I can't read the argument but quoting Wikipedia:
>None of the procuring murder allegations were part of Ulbricht's indictment in New York, although the evidence was factored into Ulbricht's sentence.
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>On the last day of trial, Serrin Turner, the NY lead prosecutor, addressed the jury and stated that none of the six contracted murders-for-hire allegations occurred. One charge of procuring murder was originally filed in October 2013 in a separate pending indictment in Maryland (which was later dismissed in its entirety in July 2018); the other five allegations were never filed.
I don't really know enough about the American justice system to understand exactly what went on there but apparently the judgement was not solely based on the nonviolent charges?
>None of the procuring murder allegations were part of Ulbricht's indictment in New York, although the evidence was factored into Ulbricht's sentence.
[...]
>On the last day of trial, Serrin Turner, the NY lead prosecutor, addressed the jury and stated that none of the six contracted murders-for-hire allegations occurred. One charge of procuring murder was originally filed in October 2013 in a separate pending indictment in Maryland (which was later dismissed in its entirety in July 2018); the other five allegations were never filed.
I don't really know enough about the American justice system to understand exactly what went on there but apparently the judgement was not solely based on the nonviolent charges?