Further, basic law throughout the States requires that the plaintiff appear and take the stand to testify if the defendant so demands. The plaintiff in this case is the United States of America. It will never be able to take the stand and testify.

Further, basic law says that there must be harm or damage done. It is known as "corpus delicti." If the defendant requires it, the plaintiff must produce a person who was harmed with actual harm, or actual property damage that was done. Then they have to prove that the defendant did the harm or damage.

Further, they need a witness to the harming and/or damaging who will swear under oath that they observed that the defendant did it.

The whole court scene is designed to get the defendant to admit to guilt. Why? Because without that, if the defendant stands up and requires the above, government loses.

Further, if government loses, Ross can come back and demand a big settlement for everything they put him through, including return of his property, bitcoins, computer, etc.

The attorneys for the defendant are officers of the court. Their first allegiance is to the court, not to the defendant. The whole thing is a process to get the defendant to sign his life away rather than to stand up and require to face his accuser, the plaintiff, who must evidence some form of corpus delicti.

The court is a sham. It is a ripoff, designed to trick Ross into giving up.