Didn't know about this. His clemency petition [1] doesn't mention any serious crimes. It even lists over 250 organizations, eminent individuals and leaders have voiced their support[2] for clemency.
No, he didn't. These allegations were just made up and not even part of the court case later. But sure enough, for every story about Ross somebody brings this up as if it's a matter of fact.
There's no reason to believe the allegations were made up. They were not part of the charges, but the alleged hitman himself, federal investigators, as well as journalists having studied everything related to the case are certain that Ulbricht did in fact pay for the hits on several individuals. The transcripts of the chats have been available for years.
Things like "due process" and "innocent until proven guilty" exist for a reason. If somebody is accused of something as serious as murder for hire they deserve a process about that or everybody should just shut about it.
A Wired article and some chat transcripts are hardly proof.
Ross got double life imprisonment and 40 years without possibility of parole for what is effectively building a website. Let that sink in for a moment.
And if people bring up the craziness of this sentencing the standard reply is "but murder for hire". Which he wasn't even charged one.
>Things like "due process" and "innocent until proven guilty" exist for a reason.
In a court of law, yes. However we are currently not in a court of law so I don't need to pretend that there's no evidence of the fact that he tried to get multiple people killed even though it never formally made it onto the list of charges. And if you think 'a few chat logs' are the only thing connecting him to the murders, I suggest you familiarise yourself with the actual case. It also included an undercover FBI agent being asked by Ulbricht to kill Curtis Clark Green, which included a fake death and faked torture footage being exchanged with Ulbricht[1]. Green himself corroborated this.
Al Capone was sentenced based on tax evasion, that doesn't mean I need to pretend that the mob didn't also kill people.
As the story goes, he was scammed. The ‘2 people’ didn’t even exist... Anyway nobody will ever prove it’s true or not so it’s just hearsay.... I personally support his cause because he is a scapegoat.
