In my opinion, it is a good thing he got arrested. That is also not the way bitcoin works.
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I don't think what he was doing was right and I believe it was a good thing that he got arrested - I thought it was a bad image that whenever I read about bitcoins it was to buy drugs and I think the community will look way worse if you're reading about them spending effort to get a drug dealer who paid for murders among other things his money back. Plus its not like he can use the Bitcoins sitting in jail. I don't believe your fix would work and I'm certain that I and many other users probably don't want to spend their time and effort to allow him to get his coins back.
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