Unsealed Transcript Shows How a Judge Justified Ross Ulbricht's Life Sentence
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Unsealed Transcript Shows How a Judge Justified Ross Ulbricht's Life Sentence
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#2Judge> It was a world of laws that you created, they were your laws. It is fictional to think of Silk Road as some place of freedom.
Ouch, terrible strawman; freedom doesn't mean freedom from all laws. It does entail freedom from some unreasonable laws.
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#3It's terrible that we are doing this to someone who probably would have learned their lesson with only 5-10 years of prison and been able to return to society. He had the potential to return as a productive member of society and now instead he will be a lifelong debt all for assisting in the sale of drugs that people willingly purchased knowing the risk of death from those drugs. He's no saint but this punishment is unreasonable and it seems like the Judge was just out to get him.
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#4It's terrible that we are doing this to someone who probably would have learned their lesson with only 5-10 years of prison and been able to return to society. He had the potential to return as a productive member of society and now instead he will be a lifelong debt all for assisting in the sale of drugs that people willingly purchased knowing the risk of death from those drugs. He's no saint but this punishment is…
I agree but if they also want to use the strict punishment to deter then it would probably have to be more than that.
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#5Wow. She is on a mission. I wonder what her medical qualifications are, and also what happened behind the scenes to persuade her.
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#6It's terrible that we are doing this to someone who probably would have learned their lesson with only 5-10 years of prison and been able to return to society. He had the potential to return as a productive member of society and now instead he will be a lifelong debt all for assisting in the sale of drugs that people willingly purchased knowing the risk of death from those drugs. He's no saint but this punishment is…
I agree but if they also want to use the strict punishment to deter then it would probably have to be more than that.
What sentence would be sufficient, if 10 years isn't?
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#7It's terrible that we are doing this to someone who probably would have learned their lesson with only 5-10 years of prison and been able to return to society. He had the potential to return as a productive member of society and now instead he will be a lifelong debt all for assisting in the sale of drugs that people willingly purchased knowing the risk of death from those drugs. He's no saint but this punishment is…
Well, that and attempting to have multiple people killed.
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#8It's terrible that we are doing this to someone who probably would have learned their lesson with only 5-10 years of prison and been able to return to society. He had the potential to return as a productive member of society and now instead he will be a lifelong debt all for assisting in the sale of drugs that people willingly purchased knowing the risk of death from those drugs. He's no saint but this punishment is…
Well, that and attempting to have multiple people killed.
The assassination stuff is disturbing, but it's not what he was sentenced for.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, that and attempting to have multiple people killed.
The assassination stuff is disturbing, but it's not what he was sentenced for.
The sentencing transcript disagrees with you; the judge goes on for several pages about it.
There's a really virulent meme that Ulbricht was never tried for the assassination scheme. But he was: the murder-for-hire scheme was a predicate on his "criminal conspiracy" charge. Not only was it brought up in trial, but it was brought up in a way that put the onus on the prosecution to prove it.
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#10Interesting how the judge is outraged by the recommendation of 'Doctor X' to the person to discontinue their antidepressants before taking MDMA. Surely she must know the highly elevated risk of mixing anti-depressants and a drug like MDMA can cause Serotonin Syndrome and lead to death....