I think its slightly dishonest to frame this as him simply “creating a website”. He created a marketplace to sell drugs on, I just don’t understand the sympathy. I feel bad for low level drug dealers in jail, this guy not so much.
I would agree it could’ve been handled differently, same with every other aspect of the war on drugs. But celebrating this guy is a step too far for me.
Fair enough. The way I see it though is he made the drug trade incredibly safer because there were forums dedicated to drug testing, the stuff you got. You didn’t have to meet up with people in shady back alleys to purchase the drugs. So reduction of violence occurred, etc.
He was never formally charged with those, and the court dismissed those charges years later due to lack of evidence. So either he did not do it, or the US government in all its power could not find out that he did it.
I did some reading and because he was never indicted for them for the trial, I don’t believe they’ve been dismissed, at least based on my quick research.
I wonder what the statute of limitations is, and what this pardon is for and if a prosecutor still thinks those are indictments worth pursuing.
Right after Ross’s arrest, prosecutors in the state of Maryland filed a separate indictment that contained the only allegation of murder-for-hire ever filed against Ross. The indictment referenced an alleged hit on Curtis Green, a Silk Road administrator (more on Curtis Green below). For nearly five years, that indictment was left untouched, unprosecuted. Eventually, in July 2018, the District of Maryland dismissed it with prejudice, meaning it can never be re-filed or used against Ross again.[3][4]
Because he was put in jail for over a decade for creating a website and he was made an example victim of the failed drug war.
I think its slightly dishonest to frame this as him simply “creating a website”. He created a marketplace to sell drugs on, I just don’t understand the sympathy. I feel bad for low level drug dealers in jail, this guy not so much.
I would agree it could’ve been handled differently, same with every other aspect of the war on drugs. But celebrating this guy is a step too far for me.
Do you know what a website is? I guess we should shut down Facebook because of crimes facilitated thru them?
No, because Facebook is not explicitly designed for the sole purpose of illegal transactions. Very clear difference.
Fair enough. The way I see it though is he made the drug trade incredibly safer because there were forums dedicated to drug testing, the stuff you got. You didn’t have to meet up with people in shady back alleys to purchase the drugs. So reduction of violence occurred, etc.
He tried to put out contract killinga on people, though, right?
That isn’t selling drugs online for crypto.
He was never formally charged with those, and the court dismissed those charges years later due to lack of evidence. So either he did not do it, or the US government in all its power could not find out that he did it.
I did some reading and because he was never indicted for them for the trial, I don’t believe they’ve been dismissed, at least based on my quick research.
I wonder what the statute of limitations is, and what this pardon is for and if a prosecutor still thinks those are indictments worth pursuing.
https://reason.com/2018/07/25/ross-ulbrichts-murder-for-hire-charges-d/
Yeah, but dropped isn’t dismissed. I can’t tell who is saying they dismissed the charged, a judge or a prosecutor.
https://freeross.org/false-allegations/
Edit: the pdf https://freeross.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Doc_14_Dismissal_Indictment_7-26-2018.pdf