Quote from: eternalgloom on October 08, 2018, 11:30:57 AM

The sentencing is just ridiculous imo, even if it was true that he tried to have people killed.
Sure, attempted murder should land you in prison for a couple of years at minimum, but a life sentence is too much even for those serious accusations.
Just my two cents though... I'm sure that people will disagree.

The murder for hire charges aren't relevant to the time he got because he wasn't charged for them at his trial, but I don't get why attempting to hire someone to have someone killed is less serious than actual attempted murder. The outcome would have still been the same with a life being lost and that person being responsible for that.

Quote from: hold-coins on October 08, 2018, 06:37:43 PM

Quote from: AGD on October 08, 2018, 09:24:35 AM

OP. Do you have any proof of your claim, that the 2 convicted agents had access on Ross U. computer and have been tampering evidence on it?

the Murder for higher being dropped should be enough proof.

This isn't proof. Lots of times charges get dropped for a multitude of reasons even if they know the person is guilty of them (or highly likely to be). A lot of plea deals often involve more serious charges being dropped in exchange for a guilty plea on lesser charges. The state doesn't care as long as they get you locked up with as less fuss as possible.

Quote from: hold-coins on October 08, 2018, 06:37:43 PM

they based the guilty verdict and conviction off of pending charges (the murder for hire) off of a crime that was later dropped.

Says who? They convicted him of money laundering and running a darknet market amongst other things. It's running the darknet market that got him life, as harsh as that may be.

Quote from: AGD on October 09, 2018, 03:51:57 AM

It was dropped, because there was no evidence that the actual murders took place and not because the corrupt cops were tampering something on Ross U's computer. Ross still intended to kill 6 people to protect his 'drug empire', which has been clear from the chatlogs, which were obv. not tampered.

I don't think it was dropped because of that. Attempting to have someone killed regardless of it happening is still a serious crime. It was probably dropped because they didn't need it to send him down and the murder for hires did include the corrupt agents (from what I remember) so it could have even been entrapment, but they probably wanted to leave the corruption of the agents out of the trial if they could for obvious reasons.