They tried hard to make him look innocent but at the end of the day he did facilitate the buying and selling of drugs on a massive scale. I’m not to sure what to make of it personally though but worse people have been given lesser sentences so maybe he should be freed.
@kirby@graf sounds like he totally followed through too even if he was badgered. I think entrapment is when a reasonable person wouldn't do it unless enticed past reasonableness. Killing to protect your illegal business isn't entrapment
All they have is message logs, and the two agents who 'found' those messages also wound up with $ tens of millions in BTC somehow transferred from DPR's wallet to theirs. Could there be any reason (like, tens of millions of reasons) they would want to fabricate a paper trail explaining large BTC transfers?? 🤔
The defense team was denied an independent forensic audit of the server, so with the agents having root access to the db a message log is less than meaningless. The FBI agents involved in investigating the murder conspiracy were sent to prison and the charges were never brought to trial, yet somehow the allegations were still raised in Ross' sentencing hearing without the defense ever being granted discovery, cross examination of witnesses, or an opportunity to raise a defense to the allegations.
Reasonable question may remain, but we have an innocent until proven guilty system, and imho there's no reasonable way to conclude he was proven guilty of any of that.
@Charkov@nicholas@kirby@graf you couldn't pardon snowden without pissing off basically the entire intelligence community, some darknet market guy doesn't
@graf@nicholas@kirby@sun Snowden is to far gone, fucked with the system a little to hard, so did Julian Assange. Even with a pardon I don't see a reason for Snowden to renter the USA. Both would get a visit from Hill dawg