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Re:Backpage founders get mistrial because US overplayed chil... by tptacek on Thursday September 16, 2021 @12:49AM (#28548150)
Which rumors are you referring to? People often say that about the "murder for hire" scheme, in the mistaken belief that Ulbricht wasn't actually charged for that. He was: the murder scheme was an explicit predicate of the conspiracy charge. They did in fact charge him for it. It's right there in the indictment.
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Re:Backpage founders get mistrial because US overplayed chil... by bc4m on Thursday September 16, 2021 @02:24PM (#28555252)
Yes, but they left out explicit murder-for-hire charges in the indictment for that trial. They filed a separate indictment with those charges in a different state which they dropped after the first trial ended.

It's not exactly the same but I see a pattern of using an accusation to influence a trial without intending to prove it.

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Re:Backpage founders get mistrial because US overplayed chil... by tptacek on Thursday September 16, 2021 @06:33PM (#28558652)
I don't think that's true. I think the murder-for-hire scheme is a predicate on the conspiracy charge he was ultimately convicted for, in the main trial.
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