Well, as a legal matter, I don't think the verdict will be overturned. It appears that most of these issues were already argued before the court, and Ulbricht lost. The government appears to have appropriately segregated the evidence from the Baltimore team and kept it out of the trial.
I agree, the unsound conviction will no doubt stand. But that unsound conviction in itself is an indictment of the poor state of constitutional law in the US. I think such a scenario as involves SA Force would cause a scandal that would threaten government ministers in most European/Western democracies.
Yes, but those are real democracies. The system insulates the U.S. president from scandal. Even Nixon wasn't impeached but was allowed to resign instead. He should have been tried for his crimes but instead they built him a presidential library like every other former president.
