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evidenceevidenceother2015 Federal TrialKarpeles's offer through his lawyer to provide information identifying the real DPR, which defense counsel described as an offer in return for immunityOn Day 4, the court excluded the offer as irrelevant, noting that, according to the government's proffer, Karpeles never supplied the information. Dratel argued that the offer mattered as an attempt to implicate someone else in exchange for immunity, not as proof that Karpeles possessed the information.
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Karpeles's offer through his lawyer to provide information identifying the real DPR, which defense counsel described as an offer in return for immunity

On Day 4, the court excluded the offer as irrelevant, noting that, according to the government's proffer, Karpeles never supplied the information. Dratel argued that the offer mattered as an attempt to implicate someone else in exchange for immunity, not as proof that Karpeles possessed the information.

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The court rejected the offer as relevant evidence of Ulbricht's culpability, finding that it invited speculation.

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