U.S. v. ULBRICHT

Docket No. 15-1815, August Term, 2016.

858 F.3d 71 (2017)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Ross William ULBRICHT, a/k/a Dread Pirate Roberts, a/k/a Silk Road, a/k/a Sealed Defendant 1, a/k/a DPR, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: May 31, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

JOSHUA L. DRATEL , Joshua L. Dratel, P.C., New York, NY, for defendant-appellant Ross William Ulbricht.

EUN YOUNG CHOI , Assistant United States Attorney ( Michael D. Neff , Timothy T. Howard , Adam S. Hickey , Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), for Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY.

Tamar Todd , Jolene Forman , Drug Policy Alliance, Oakland, CA, for amici curiae Drug Policy Alliance, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, JustLeadershipUSA, and Nancy Gertner.

Joel B. Rudin , Law Offices of Joel B. Rudin, P.C., New York, NY; Steven R. Morrison , University of North Dakota School of Law, Grand Forks, ND, for amicus curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Before: Newman, Lynch, and Droney, Circuit Judges.


Defendant Ross William Ulbricht appeals from a judgment of conviction and sentence to life imprisonment entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Katherine B. Forrest, J.). A jury convicted Ulbricht of drug trafficking and other crimes associated with his creation and...

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