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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Economics. Silk Road Trial Roundup: Damning Alleged Ulbricht Journals, One Alternate Dread Pirate Roberts Theory Inadmissible Things are Getting Tougher and Tougher for the Ulbricht Defense ...

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 ...

Silk Road's leader Dread Pirate Roberts, or DPR, takes his name from a character in a William Golding novel turned 1980s film "The Princess Bride." Just as the fictional Dread Pirate assumes many ...

NEW YORK — Silk Road darknet mastermind Ross Ulbricht has asked a federal appeals court to vacate his 2015 criminal conviction and order a new trial, contending that government corruption and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...