Ross Ulbricht, convicted last month on federal charges of running the online drug bazaar Silk Road, is seeking a new trial premised on what his lawyers contend was the government's failure to provide evidence potentially pointing to his innocence "in a timely manner."
"Mr. Ulbricht should be granted a new trial because the government failed to provide exculpatory material and information in a timely manner, thereby denying him his Fifth Amendment right to due process and a fair trial," Joshua Dratel, the defendant's lead attorney, wrote Friday in a court filing. (PDF)
Dratel's motion says that the government, just two weeks before trial, handed over some 5,000 pages of material concerning the nature of the upcoming testimony of a Department of Homeland Security agent, who was the government's first witness. The evidence concerned, Dratel wrote in his motion, "information about an alternative perpetrator."
(via ARS Technica)
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