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insomniasexx  ·  3497 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison

I was just thinking about the hitman thing. What happened with that?

I assume something to do with the corrupt investigators? There were too many stories for me to follow throughout this entire shitstorm.





user-inactivated  ·  3497 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah my guess is it was thrown out or some equivalent. Those charges were always much more tenuous than the drug stuff, though morally more relevant.

_refugee_  ·  3497 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Dude guys it was thrown out because he was basically framed for the hit man thing. One undercover cop pretended to be a hit man and another undercover cop was the guy Ross said to kill. There was no real attempt at murder there. There's all sora of ethics violations that the undercover cops involved in the investigation committed. In a typical demonstration of our justice system those homicide counts were really mostly thrown on in an attempt to discredit him in the eyes of the public and the media and make it easier to ensure he got time for the actual 'crimes' he committed - law enforcement always loads up on charges for indictments because it gives them a better position at the bargaining table and in court.

user-inactivated  ·  3497 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Okay. Entrapment? Did he send the texts that we all read? I get that legally entrapment excuses him from a lot of things but I've always thought it was a good way of discovering someone's morals.

OftenBen  ·  3496 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?