Silk Road founder loses sentencing appeal -- will spend life in prison
 

IMO life sentences are for people who are too dangerous to enter back into society. I highly doubt this guy would ever open another drug sales platform. His sentence was handed down to unfairly make an example of him.


https://www.wired.com/2017/05/silk-r...ntence-appeal/

That's a lot of time for that kind of crime but i get it.

Lets not forget
Ulbricht’s alleged attempts to pay for the murders of a witness, an informant, and three others.

“In light of the overwhelming evidence, discussed below, that Ulbricht was prepared, like other drug kingpins, to protect his profits by paying large sums of money to have individuals who threatened his enterprise murdered, it would be plainly wrong to conclude that he was sentenced for accidental deaths that the district court discussed only in passing in imposing sentence,”

so a person who builds a website that traffics in narcotics that cause addiction & overdose deaths, & traffics them on a million dollar scale...does not deserve life to you?

that's just ducky.

:upsidedow

It's good to make an example of people that do destructive things, the way it was done and who he let into it, was fucked up beyond belief with no shits given to the health & safety of the end user :2 cents:

but what if he was mexican?

He didn't sell the drugs. He operated the platform that buyers and sellers used. For that he should have received time in prison, but not a life sentence.

I would say that is between him and mexican authorities. I don't care what mexico does.

He knew full well what was happening on his platform. He doesn't get to use that as an excuse. He is just as guilty as the ones that did the actual shipping. Plus he tried to have people killed to have his operation protected. Be glad he isn't getting the chair, vs just life behind bars.

It's what narcotics kingpins get...organized crime etc...continuation in said organized crime...a whole set of laws broken...

Yes, its called RICO. Look it up. Plus he was a sleeper Muslim.

My inner liberal agrees...if it was just running the site. When he started shopping for a hit? If its true, he went full walter white kingpin.

However i think 80% of the governments case is bullshit. Feds used secret nsa ways to find him. The line that an errant email disclosure blew his cover just smells like bull.

So its hard to judge his sentence. Hard to tell what facts are.

Building the platform does not make him guilty same as actually slanging crack on street corners.

I think life sentence is fucked up, bullshit typical big government slamming fist down , expressing they have the power to do anything they want. to anyone.

He tried to have people killed...

conspiracy to commit murder almost never gets life in prison. If so, they're usually parolled after 10yrs

Several. Amazing how some are so fucking clueless about murder, copyrights...

Punishment should discourage others from doing the crime.

silk road to his ass now

I can see this from his point of view although I do disagree with him.

But at the same time there is another thread about a guy who tossed a baby off a bridge or something and got 70 years.

Often Justice is wrong.

He made money from a platform he ran to move millions of drugs; but somehow he's not a kingpin.

LOL!

It's laughable how people try to invent "technicalities" to pretend they are not committing crime.

:helpme

well the guy tried to have people killed but regardless, there are a number of people behind bars who were made examples of that no one cares about anymore. ie email spammers.

The rest of his lifetime just to read. I love it.

He charged drug dealer a fee to sell drugs on his "corner".. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh Some of you junkies need to wake the fuck up.

if it WAS ulbricht (enough doubts there imo) then so what... don't try to get people killed, and you won't do life.

Right...like it works with the death penalty.

Just look how that has stopped murder.

Why should he have given as you say "no shits" when business is business or did you miss that part of business 101 while you were in the stalls on your knees servicing real men in college.