Daily Dot Article: Here's all the evidence the government will present in the Silk Road trial

http://www.dailydot.com/crime/silk-road-ross-ulbricht-evidence-list/

It's pretty detailed. Among other things:

Bello Coffee appears to be the cafe from which police say Ulbricht logged into the virtual private network (VPN) that he allegedly used as an extra layer of protection to access Tor and Silk Road. The prosecution says they have records from Google showing Ulbricht logging into his Gmail account from the Internet cafe on a regular basis, including on days when the VPN was used from the same cafe.

Unless his lawyer pulls off some miraculous legal trickery, it sounds like he's pretty fucked. Oh and cirrus is most likely the undercover/informant admin.


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[13 Points] Jay-__:

The government has made it clear (...) that it plans on trying to hold Ulbricht accountable for all the illegal transactions that took place on Silk Road, not just the ones he directly took part in.

Wait, what..?!


[13 Points] None:

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[5 Points] gwern:

Oh and cirrus is most likely the undercover/informant admin.

More than that, note the screenshot about taking photographs from Cirrus's laptop of his end of the Torchat conversation with Ulbricht when he was arrested. So he was even then a UC? How else or why would the FBI be taking photos of his laptop '2 hours' and '5 hours' after Ulbricht was arrested?


[7 Points] None:

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[5 Points] uuu3u3uru:

He connected everything he did, including setting up hidden services, buying bitcoin, and purchasing shroom growing equipment, all tied to this gmail address. Shit.


[2 Points] housemuse:

The only thing he has going for him.. Is that he gets to spend his time in a federal prison vs a state one. I heard the conditions are much better in federal prisons. Not sure how true that is though.


[2 Points] sharpshooter789:

Some of those screen shots make me think cirrus will be a witness at this trial. Perhaps this influenced the the feds decision to bust SR2 when they did.


[1 Points] FapNowPayLater:

The cirrus as undercover aspect seems to hold water, but part of me suspects he is serving as a rubberstamp to the prosecutions claims and evidence. Could cirrus be acting as the legitimator of state evidence as a means of parallel construction?

Also. The judge is considering (or has already ruled) that dpr's libertarian philosophy need not be presented to the jury. Unfair i agree, but also incredibly provoking to me. As more politicans (representing a myriad of views),from Ted Cruz to Elizabeth Warren begin to gather attention positing political views that stray from or even highlight the absurdity of current structures. The parties of american politics are acared shitless. As are the judges that depend on appointments, lobbyists used to unfettered access to congress, and industries that have depended on the current system to stay at the status quo. These include big petroleum, defense contractors, and political action committees.

Dpr is beig tried in NY state. The prosecutor, following jury selection remains wary that the jurors will begin to see this not as a drug kingpin case, but rather a matter of civil liberties. If indeed the libertarian views of Mr. ULBRIXHT are barred from being dicussed then i (in my infinite legal knowledge) considee an appeal a foregone conclusion with the gagging of political discourse. Then it becomes a civil righrs case again. Which is what dpr needs.

Distrust in the govt/justice fept/congress in america is at levles not seen since the watergate scandal. Americans are leaving their parties of old but no switching sides. As in the past. The false dichotomy of a two party system is more apparent now than ever. This very.well.could be Ross'S Beat hope. Jury nullification due to disagreement ofnlegitimacy of the law.

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