Criminal,
Constitutional Law
Oct. 24, 2014
Silk Road and the intangible digital age
When faced with difficult questions, courts love to punt based on standing. The Silk Road case currently in the Southern District of New York is a perfect example of this.
Tor Ekeland
Partner
Tor Ekeland Law PLLC
Tor practices internet and computer law and represents defendants in federal computer crime prosecutions across the country.
Faced with difficult questions, courts love to punt based on standing. The case against Ross Ulbricht currently in the Southern District of New York is a perfect example. Asked to decide whether the FBI was engaged in illegal surveillance and parallel construction (the practice of misrepresenting the source of evidence), the court instead denied the alleged "Silk Road" mastermind's motion to suppress for lack of standing, and avoided the merits all together.
The court's decision l...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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