Silk Road Defense Says Ulbricht Was Framed by the ‘Real’ Dread Pirate Roberts

Re:Silk Road Defense Says Ulbricht Was Framed by the ‘Real’ ... by codezero on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @07:39PM (#8883546)

Will be interesting to see how this plays out. Maybe they just need to convince the jury he didn't act alone? There is probably a decent amount of evidence to show he had help and maybe wasn't running the whole operation, but this seems like a defense approach that will make the jury very suspicious from the onset.

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Re:Silk Road Defense Says Ulbricht Was Framed by the ‘Real’ ... by tomphoolery on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @07:59PM (#8883636)

I mean, everyone's defense is "I didn't do it, I was framed". There really is no defense here. You'd think more people would be screaming about it if he was truly innocent. Hopefully, the defense will also include some sort of evidence backing up the statement, otherwise I'm pretty sure Ulbricht is going to jail.

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Re:Silk Road Defense Says Ulbricht Was Framed by the ‘Real’ ... by nerfhammer on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @07:51PM (#8883597)

I think the strategy is to dazzle the jury with confusing uncertainty

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Re:Silk Road Defense Says Ulbricht Was Framed by the ‘Real’ ... by ccleve on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @09:55PM (#8884011)

Ah, the Chewbacca Defense. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense

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Re:Silk Road Defense Says Ulbricht Was Framed by the ‘Real’ ... by utnick on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @11:18PM (#8884269)

I think he really is just trying to convince the jury that it might have been someone else who ordered the murders.

That should shave decades off the jailtime.

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Re:Silk Road Defense Says Ulbricht Was Framed by the ‘Real’ ... by tedunangst on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @09:12PM (#8883879)

Obvious question the jury will be asking: so who did he sell it to? Better have a good answer.

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