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0 pointsjstanley7y ago0 comments

I just tried to look this up and couldn't find a source that the alleged murder-for-hire was included in his sentencing. All I found was:

> On the last day of trial, Serrin Turner, the NY lead prosecutor, addressed the jury and stated that none of the six contracted murders-for-hire allegations occurred.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht

It seems like it would be unlikely to take the murder-for-hire allegations into account in the sentencing after the prosecution have already stated that they were false allegations.

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dragonwriter7y ago

Wikipedia is a tertiary source; fact claims in it come in two forms:

(1) Ones that cite no other source and should be viewed as extremely unreliable, and

(2) Ones that cite some other source, which should be reviewed and evaluated to assess the claim.

The one you point to is in the latter category, and cites as it's support a Guardian article which describes be prosecutor not as claiming that the six attempts to procure murders for hire had not occurred, but that he did not believe any of the murders Ulbricht had attempted to procure had occurred.

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