TO BE UPDATED AS THE DAY CONTINUES
Dratel Breaks a tooth
/u/gwern comments: Ulbricht's lead lawyer, Dratel, may be out of the courtroom today because he broke a tooth
Gwern and Deepdot discuss on twitter
The judge stated "it is too late to have the jurors stay home" (found at the bottom of the first page of the PDF found above)
Dr Clu arrested
/u/shulginscat posted about the possible arrest of former SR moderator.
Judge eviscerates Dratel
/u/memememe_ posted a wired article in which Judge Forrest stated, of the defenses new line of questioning being stricken from the record
"I'm done with this issue," Forrest eventually told Dratel. "I'm not suggesting you should like it or agree with it,
but that's the way we're going to proceed."Dratel continues questioning
/u/uncle_unicorn posts a wired article in which, "Without obtaining full control of the website and arresting its leader, a new one could be created, the agent explained. Dratel noted that this indeed happened one month after his client's Oct. 1, 2013, arrest, when Silk Road 2.0 hit the Internet. Ironically, the same afternoon that Dratel made this remark, federal prosecutors in Washington state unsealed allegations against 26-year-old Brian Farrell, who allegedly used the moniker "DoctorClu" to become a "key player in Silk Road 2.0." Dratel had no comment about the development except to quip that Washington state also lies in the Pacific Time Zone." was written
Big list of links via deepdot <3
http://www.dailydot.com/crime/ross-ulbricht-trial-silk-road-inventor-not-dpr/
http://www.deepdotweb.com/2015/01/14/silk-road-trial1/
http://www.wired.com/2015/01/silk-road-trial-undercover-dhs-fbi-trap-ross-ulbricht/
http://www.wired.com/2015/01/dhs-believed-mt-gox-ceo-might-silk-roads-secret-mastermind/
http://www.dailydot.com/crime/ross-ulbricht-silk-road-mark-karpales-fbi/
http://www.dailydot.com/crime/karpeles-denial-dread-pirate-roberts/
http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/15/7553591/silk-road-trial-ross-ulbricht-mt-gox-mark-karpeles
http://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahjeong/2015/01/16/dhs-agent-thought-mt-gox-ceo-was-dpr/
Good Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_zz1d6MfAQ
That Blond Crazy bitcoin girl video about the trial:
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