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I think its slightly dishonest to frame this as him simply "creating a website". He created a marketplace to sell drugs on, I just don't understand the sympathy. I feel bad for low level drug dealers in jail, this guy not so much.
I would agree it could've been handled differently, same with every other aspect of the war on drugs. But celebrating this guy is a step too far for me.
Fair enough. The way I see it though is he made the drug trade incredibly safer because there were forums dedicated to drug testing, the stuff you got. You didn't have to meet up with people in shady back alleys to purchase the drugs. So reduction of violence occurred, etc.
He tried to put out contract killinga on people, though, right?
That isn't selling drugs online for crypto.
He was never formally charged with those, and the court dismissed those charges years later due to lack of evidence. So either he did not do it, or the US government in all its power could not find out that he did it.
I did some reading and because he was never indicted for them for the trial, I don't believe they've been dismissed, at least based on my quick research.
I wonder what the statute of limitations is, and what this pardon is for and if a prosecutor still thinks those are indictments worth pursuing.
https://reason.com/2018/07/25/ross-ulbrichts-murder-for-hire-charges-d/
Yeah, but dropped isn't dismissed. I can't tell who is saying they dismissed the charged, a judge or a prosecutor.
https://freeross.org/false-allegations/
Edit: the pdf https://freeross.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Doc_14_Dismissal_Indictment_7-26-2018.pdf