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Re:Ross Ulbricht Convicted of Running Silk Road as Dread Pir... by WillNotDownvote on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @04:30PM (#8999998)
Which would still be a crime, if he committed it. But he wasn't tried for it.
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Re:Ross Ulbricht Convicted of Running Silk Road as Dread Pir... by nyolfen on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @04:52PM (#9000196)
he will be in another trial
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Re:Ross Ulbricht Convicted of Running Silk Road as Dread Pir... by FireBeyond on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @04:34PM (#9000037)
Put him away for the things that are an easy conviction, rather than the more nebulous details of that attempt. Why cloud things?
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Re:Ross Ulbricht Convicted of Running Silk Road as Dread Pir... by FireBeyond on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @06:32PM (#9000809)
Not sure why this is being down voted.

Of the two sets of charges, one was a much more easy conviction - the drug dealing.

It's not the prosecutor's job to introduce clouds of doubt into a prosecution. And this is not a case of "better ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be found guilty". He was, apparently quite overwhelmingly guilty of the charges related to running Silk Road. Why risk a conviction by charging him with something that might not stick (yes, I realize you can be found guilty of some charges and not others, but a whole world of doubt is introduced)?

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