The Supreme Court announced on June 28, 2018, that it will not reconsider the conviction or life sentence of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged mastermind behind the darknet site Silk Road.
Ulbricht was first arrested in October 2013 at the Glen Park Branch Library in San Francisco.
Ulbricht was found guilty on counts of trafficking drugs on the internet, running a criminal enterprise, narcotics-trafficking conspiracy, computer hacking and money laundering, and was sentenced to life in prison.
Ulbricht’s legal team later filed an appeal of the sentence, which was formally denied in 2017.
Ulbricht attempted to bring his case before the Supreme Court last December, alleging that his fourth and sixth amendment rights had been violated.
In a court order released today, June 28, Silk Road founder, Ross Ulbricht, was denied by the United States Supreme Court for a review of his life sentence. Ross Ublricht, known on the internet as the “Dread Pirate Roberts”, founded the darkweb black market website, Silk Road, in 2011.
At the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, attendees listened to the first phone interview with the Silk Road’s Ross Ulbricht from the depths of the maximum-security prison in Tucson, Arizona. During the interview, Ulbricht spoke about bitcoin and how the decentralized crypto asset is “transforming the global economy.
Ross Ulbricht is forced to spend the rest of his life in prison, and October 1 marked the beginning of his seventh year behind bars. Ulbricht has recently authored a letter explaining that he’s “forgotten what freedom actually feels like” and he’s also realized that he lost some of the “best years of his life.