Convicted Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht has served a year of his double-life sentence without parole, but is now getting the chance to appeal his original conviction. The first step on that road is a big one too, as his legal team submitted a 140+ page document requesting the original trial be thrown out, citing examples such as corrupt federal officers being involved in the case.
This was a major point of contention during and in the aftermath of the original trial, where it was found that a pair of federal offices, one from the DEA and another from the Secret Service, had deliberately hidden away Bitcoins that were part of the case. They eventually pled guilty to the charges, but this was long after Ulbricht’s trial was completed.
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