I do not know Ross Ulbricht, and apart from having followed news reports about his case, and having watched a documentary shown on the BBC (Silk Road: Drugs, De

I do not know Ross Ulbricht, and apart from having followed news reports about his case, and having watched a documentary shown on the BBC (Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web), my opinions matter as little as those of others not privvy to evidence presented in court hearings. Bright chap, but misguided, might be a view that I'd be happy to defend. I would not, though, want to leap on to an uninformed bandwagon with respect to his alleged conspiracy to murder, or with respect to any campaign for presidential pardon. Old-fashioned as I am, I would prefer any such deliberations and rulings to be the domain of the judiciary and legal systems, rather than of random public opinion.