Silk Road Defense Says Ulbricht Was Framed by the ‘Real’ Dread Pirate Roberts
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Re: Silk Road Defense Says Ulbricht Was Framed by the ‘Real’ Dread Pirate Roberts
#2The real Roberts has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.
Re: Silk Road Defense Says Ulbricht Was Framed by the ‘Real’ Dread Pirate Roberts
#3Will 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.
Re: Silk Road Defense Says Ulbricht Was Framed by the ‘Real’ Dread Pirate Roberts
#4Dude wasn't a libertarian. He was just a murderous asshole.
He sold hacking tools and identity theft kits that existed solely to harm others. He tried to have people killed.
Fuck him.
And fuck the inevitable posts here about how, despite selling tools that are explicitly meant to harm other people, that he was somehow some good-hearted libertarian. He wasn't. He was just a fucking asshole.
I hope he rots.
Re: Silk Road Defense Says Ulbricht Was Framed by the ‘Real’ Dread Pirate Roberts
#5Will 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.
I think the strategy is to dazzle the jury with confusing uncertainty
Re: Silk Road Defense Says Ulbricht Was Framed by the ‘Real’ Dread Pirate Roberts
#6Will 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.
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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#7I know he's fighting for his freedom and you can't begrudge a man for doing whatever it takes to beat a charge, but I really think this is such a cop-out defense and I wish he had the balls to act like the same person he pretended to be when he was writing his grand manifestos about freedom of choice and individual rights.
Whatever Ulbricht himself may be, whether or not the murder for hire allegations are true, however he might have gone about running Silk Road, the libertarian ideals that justify the existence of Silk Road should have their day in court. But that won't happen here, because his defense relies on Silk Road being a terrible thing that somebody else did.
Re: Silk Road Defense Says Ulbricht Was Framed by the ‘Real’ Dread Pirate Roberts
#8The real Roberts has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.
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Re: Silk Road Defense Says Ulbricht Was Framed by the ‘Real’ Dread Pirate Roberts
#9Ah, the 'Keyser Soze' defense.
Re: Silk Road Defense Says Ulbricht Was Framed by the ‘Real’ Dread Pirate Roberts
#10The real Roberts has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.
Pantagonia... sounds like I'd like the weather there