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Convicted Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht and no less than 97 of his friends and family members have written to a judge just days prior to sentencing, asking her to impose the most lenient sentence possible. (Ars has posted the letters online along with the court filing of photos of Ulbricht and many family and friends.) Under federal mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines, Ulbricht faces at least 20 years in prison and possibly as long as life behind bars. "Silk Road turned out to be a very naive and costly idea that I deeply regret," he wrote in his own 1.5 page letter to United States District Judge Katherine Forrest filed on Friday. Read More |