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It would be a big step forward. The government would be unable to use anything that it obtained from the server in their prosecution. This may make it impossi

It would be a big step forward. The government would be unable to use anything that it obtained from the server in their prosecution. This may make it impossible to prove that he ran Silk Road. I think he has several other charges though, including multiple counts of solicitation to commit murder. Those may well involve evidence from outside the server that would be unaffected by this. Given this, the odds of DPR ever seeing the light of day, even if they win this suppression motion, are quite small. He is looking at multiple life sentences even without Silk Road specific charges. But his lawyers are going through piece by piece, hoping to convince prosecutors that it will be difficult enough to get convictions that they offer him a substantial, but less than life, prison sentence in exchange for a plea. Even then we're talking about decades in prison.

icebraining 12y ago
I think he has several other charges though, including multiple counts of solicitation to commit murder. Nope, most were dropped before the indictment. Only one (in Maryland) remains: http://freeross.org/correction-of-our-report-on-the-indictment/ http://freeross.org/correction-of-our-report-on-the-indictme...
- downandout 12y ago
  Still, one is probably enough for a decades-long or life sentence.
higherpurpose 12y ago
This could also be a HUGE step for all anti-parallel construction cases out there. Not only will it embolden other lawyers to look for details in their cases that might point to parallel construction, therefore leading to more such discoveries, but the government should also freak out that their parallel-constructed cases (I assume they have at least hundreds we don't know about, possibly thousands) would get invalidated, and might actually stop getting information this way.
- mindslight 12y ago
  > the government ... might actually stop getting information this [parallel construction] way lololol. They'll just smooth the practice over with some new laws which, like every other blatantly unconstitutional law currently in effect, won't be overturned by the courts because doing so would upset the status quo. The only way it'll ever stop is when the fuckers are finally bankrupt, both economically and socially.

icebraining 12y ago

I think he has several other charges though, including multiple counts of solicitation to commit murder. Nope, most were dropped before the indictment. Only one (in Maryland) remains: http://freeross.org/correction-of-our-report-on-the-indictment/ http://freeross.org/correction-of-our-report-on-the-indictme...

downandout 12y ago
Still, one is probably enough for a decades-long or life sentence.

higherpurpose 12y ago

This could also be a HUGE step for all anti-parallel construction cases out there. Not only will it embolden other lawyers to look for details in their cases that might point to parallel construction, therefore leading to more such discoveries, but the government should also freak out that their parallel-constructed cases (I assume they have at least hundreds we don't know about, possibly thousands) would get invalidated, and might actually stop getting information this way.

mindslight 12y ago
> the government ... might actually stop getting information this [parallel construction] way lololol. They'll just smooth the practice over with some new laws which, like every other blatantly unconstitutional law currently in effect, won't be overturned by the courts because doing so would upset the status quo. The only way it'll ever stop is when the fuckers are finally bankrupt, both economically and socially.