The guy hasn't even had a trial yet and they are selling off his property. Thats some next level bullshit right there.
Evidently the court can do this. Who knew? I assumed they would have to wait until after the trial. Learn something new every day.
From what I understand DPR has claimed ownership interest of the 144,000 BTC so that will tie up those BTC for a while.
I assume they can sell the smaller wallet sooner since DPR did not contest the ownership of those BTC.
It is a little surprising, but doesn't sound terribly unfair. IANAL, but I think of it as, they had a little trial with the judge who signed the forfeiture order. They presented evidence that the server was running SR and had some coins on it. That's a pretty slam-dunk case, so they can take the coins. They haven't yet finished the trial to see whether Ulbricht ran SR, so he can keep his personal coins.