Judges question if life term too harsh for Silk Road founder
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October 7, 2016
NEW YORK (AP, Oct. 6, 2016) — A Manhattan federal appeals panel Thursday questioned whether the life prison term given to the San Francisco founder of the drug-selling website Silk Road was too harsh.
Hearing oral arguments on the conviction and sentencing of Ross Ulbricht, at least two members of a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals seemed concerned that the sentencing judge in May 2015 may have relied too much on the government's characterization of at least six deaths from drugs bought on the underground website.
Judge Jon O. Newman said he found it unusual for a man...
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