U.S. V. Dread Pirate Roberts: Inside The Trial

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U.S. V. Dread Pirate Roberts: Inside The Silk Road Trial FORBES goes inside the trial, takedown, charges, the Dread Pirate Roberts and Silk Road as things unfold in New York City. Read More > SHARE: WATCH VIDEO  Adventures In Online Drug Buying FORBES tested out the web’s most popular destinations for buying illegal drugs online. The verdict: They work. SHARE: Defense Attorney: Ross Ulbricht Created The Silk Road, But A Different Dread Pirate Roberts Committed The Crimes According to the defense, the real Dread Pirate Roberts is still out there, and the prosecution’s case is merely “a digital contrivance that left [Ulbricht] holding the bag when the real operators knew their time was up.” Read More > SHARE: Why Nobody In The Silk Road Trial Likes Jury Nullification Ulbricht’s defense team seems to find the possibility of an anonymous jury to be highly objectionable—possibly because of its use in mafia trials. Read More > SHARE: The Feds Explain How They Seized The Silk Road Servers Ross Ulbricht -- the alleged Silk Road mastermind who is facing trial in November for multiple drug and ID fraud charges -- filed a motion arguing that his Fourth Amendment rights had been violated in the government’s seizure of the Silk Road servers and subsequent searches.Read More > SHARE: Collected Quotations Of The Dread Pirate Roberts In public, the pseudonymous Internet drug czar known as the Dread Pirate Roberts doesn’t say much. Roberts’ website, the illegal, anonymous drug-selling black market known as the Silk Road, has survived only because of its creator’s discretion. Read More > SHARE: