The appeal of Silk Road creator and Bitcoin advocate Ross Ulbricht Thursday morning will focus on the actions of two rogue federal agents and the evidentiary rulings of the trial judge who sentenced Ulbricht to life in prison.
Defense lawyer Joshua Dratel, in his brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, argues he was precluded from offering a valid defense because Judge Katherine Forrest excluded “exculpatory evidence of critical law enforcement corruption by two agents” in the investigation.
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