Thursday, June 28, the U.S. Supreme court rejected a petition to review a death sentence to the founder worked with bitcoin the darknet market Silk Road Ross Ulbricht. This news has stirred up not only the supporters of Ross, but many advocates of online privacy, says CCN.
SCOTUS denied #RossUlbricht cert petition this morning after holding it pending a Carpenter. This is a NO on internet privacy and Maritime Museum’s case. Devastating. #freeross https://t.co/u9Zwh2fqGj
— Free_Ross (@Free_Ross) 28 June 2018
According to the administrators of the Twitter-channel Free_Ross, the refusal to examine the application creates a precedent for other cases of judicial claims from the defenders right to privacy.
SCOTUS denied #RossUlbricht cert petition this morning after holding it pending a Carpenter. This is a NO on internet privacy and Maritime Museum’s case. Devastating. #freeross https://t.co/u9Zwh2fqGj
— Free_Ross (@Free_Ross) 28 June 2018
The newspaper reminds that on 23 January 2018 one of the main experts in the work of the Supreme court, Tom Goldstein in his “Petition of the day” in SCOTUSblog called the case “Ulbricht against the United States” one of the most likely candidates to be included in the hearing.
Currently, Ulbricht, who under the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts (dread Pirate Roberts) ruled existed in 2011-2013, the darknet market Silk Road, is serving a double life sentence without parole for committing a range of crimes, including money laundering and drug trafficking.
The sentence was handed down in may 2015, but, according to many observers, turned out to be unexpectedly hard: as stated by the judge, he wanted to send a message to other darknet operators. All this time, Ulbricht’s lawyers claim that the investigation and judicial process was accompanied by “massive corruption, abuse of office and violation of the laws.”
For example, in sentencing Ulbricht was found guilty of ordering several murders that were never committed. In court it has not been proven that these crimes took place, however, the determination of the judge is not affected.
Lawyers of the founder of the Silk Road, referring to the Fourth and Sixth amendments to the U.S. Constitution, consider all the above to gather information about the Internet traffic without proper warrants or reasonable grounds for detention, concealment of key evidence and violation of the right to a fair trial.
That Ross Ulbricht intends to challenge his conviction and sentence to the U.S. Supreme Court, became known in December 2017. Earlier he refused claims for millions of dollars in bitcoin, seized by the us authorities.
It is noteworthy that involved in the seizure of bitcoins security officers also were not clean at hand. In particular, to make noise, the story of Secret Service agent the U.S. named Shawn bridges, who, taking advantage of official position, appropriated a considerable number of coins, but was exposed and sentenced to six years in prison.
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