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locationlocationGlen Park librarylibraryGlen Park libraryRoss Ulbricht was arrested while using his laptop at the Glen Park library in San Francisco. Thomas Kiernan testified that agents distracted Ulbricht with a staged argument and seized the laptop while it remained open. Jared Der-Yeghiayan testified that the screen displayed the same chat he had just conducted with DPR, while limiting his identification of Ulbricht to that day's exchange.
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Ross Ulbricht was arrested while using his laptop at the Glen Park library in San Francisco. Thomas Kiernan testified that agents distracted Ulbricht with a staged argument and seized the laptop while it remained open. Jared Der-Yeghiayan testified that the screen displayed the same chat he had just conducted with DPR, while limiting his identification of Ulbricht to that day's exchange.

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The open-laptop seizure supplied evidence for the government's identification of Ulbricht as DPR. The defense disputed whether the arrest-day evidence established his continuing control of Silk Road and argued that his public laptop use conflicted with DPR's security practices.

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