This is what Silk Road looked like during its heyday. (credit: US DOJ)
Nearly five months after convicted Silk Road druglord Ross Ulbricht filed his opening brief in the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, the government finally responded with its own brief late Friday evening. The government included over 200 pages of exhibits from the trial.
The 186-page reply rebuts, point-for-point, defense attorney Joshua Dratel’s claims that
- his client wasn’t the primary operator of the notorious underground website,
- that Ulbricht’s defense was hampered by two corrupt federal agents,
- that Dratel was not adequately able to cross-examine government witnesses, and
- that two witnesses were unable to testify on Ulbricht’s behalf, denying him constitutional rights, among other arguments.
After a lengthy recap of the entire case, United States Attorney Preet Bharara opened his arguments with a notable flaw in Ulbricht’s logic:
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