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Hard to get out of jail when you're serving a double life sentence...
by bromonkey 6y ago
Hard to get out of jail when you're serving a double life sentence...
- Scoundreller 6y agoThe operator didn’t stash every Bitcoin that came in. A few vendors here or there may have withdrawn their funds. These were withdrawn from the main account, but who knows who owns it.
- trhway 6y agomay be the transfer of that $1B is exactly the way out of jail. Giving that the fed agents in the case so easily succumbed to the sub-$1M temptation, one can only imagine what $1B can buy you there.
- eternalban 6y agoI missed this. I can not believe ths kid got 2 life sentences + 40 and no appeal. It's like something out of a 19th century novel There is a petition for Ross: https://www.change.org/p/clemency-for-ross-ulbricht-condemned-to-die-in-prison-for-a-website https://www.change.org/p/clemency-for-ross-ulbricht-condemne...
- asdfasgasdgasdg 6y agoLet's not infantalize him. Twenty six years old is not a "kid." He was a grown ass man who attempted to have someone killed. That being said, a double life sentence is extreme, considering many actual murderers get out after less than twenty years. Our draconian drug punishment escalations are not good.
- kylebenzle 6y agoPlease stop repeating lies about a man who can't defend himself. Those charges were dropped and there is no reason to believe that the state was not lying when they laid them on him.
- part1of2 6y ago> Those charges were dropped Dropping charges doesn't mean it's not true, just that the prosecutor did not want to pursue the case, in light of other prosecution available.
- bawolff 6y agoRegardless, we don't punish people on the basis of dropped charges. If he wasn't convicted, then we shouldn't talk about the punishment he deserves to get for those charges.
- FireBeyond 6y agoCourts do not. We however can express opinions as we see fit.
- bawolff 6y agoIndeed, "can" and "should" are very different
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