Science & Technology. Silk Road Trial Over: Ross Ulbricht Found Guilty on All 7 Counts [UPDATED With Reaction from Lawyer Joshua Dratel] Defense promises an appeal.

NEW YORK — The trial of the "Silk Road" criminal-trafficking website's alleged operator opened Tuesday with prosecutors calling him a criminal mastermind and the defense team portraying him as ...

After 13 short days of trial, Ross Ulbricht has been convicted of running the unprecedented, anonymous online black market known as the Silk Road. In terms of drama, those days included everything ...

The Silk Road trial is about more than just Ross Ulbricht. by Russell Brandom. Jan 13, 2015, 5:29 PM UTC. It’s been ...

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But at trial, the defense could question FBI investigators about how they located the Silk Road, and could also repeat that Fourth Amendment argument in an appeal. Radical Libertarianism on Trial ...

The Silk Road trial is over. A jury found Ross Ulbricht guilty on all seven charges, including money laundering, drug trafficking, and the “kingpin” charge. That’s not just bad news for ...

NEW YORK—The Silk Road drug-trafficking trial veered toward murder-for-hire allegations today, although the story didn't quite arrive there. As prosecutors near the end of their case, they ...

But at trial, the defense could question FBI investigators about how they located the Silk Road, and could also repeat that Fourth Amendment argument in an appeal. Radical Libertarianism on Trial ...

His lawyer, Joshua Dratel, said the real leader of Silk Road knew he was being investigated and “lured” Mr. Ulbricht back to the site right around the time of Mr. Ulbricht’s arrest in ...

The U.S. Marshals Service has announced that it will be auctioning off another 50,000 Bitcoins that were seized from convicted Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht's computer in October 2013. At ...

In return, the Silk Road gave Bitcoin its first major infusion of die-hard users, a base that would drive the currency higher and higher. The so-called "prosecution futures" are coming due ...