| Clark
Pled Guilty to
Silk Road Site
Drug Sales now
Has No Pen in
MDC so Last
Lawyering Up
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 7–
Roger
Thomas Clark
pled guilty to
his role in
Silk Road on
January 30,
2020, after a
period of
confinement in
Thailand.
He allocuted
to sale of
LSD, meth,
heroin and
cocaine for
sale in NYC.
He was asked
if it was
connected to
"an
underground
website known
as the Silk
Road" and said
yes.
On March 7,
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
Sidney H.
Stein held a
proceeding.
Inner City
Press went and
covered
it.
Clark
was brought in
by US Marshals
in a
non-electric
wheelchair. He
was
representing
himself, with
a stand-by CJA
counsel. He
told Judge
Stein he had
lost his legal
material while
in the SHU at
the MDC in
Brooklyn, and
that he still
thought he had
COVID, citing
a "false
negative."
Judge Stein
reviewed the
procedural
history of the
case and
opined that
Clark had been
trying to
delay
sentencing.
Clark said he
doesn't even
have a pen,
and asked to
have his
stand-by
appointed as
his lawyer.
The stand-by
said that
while he gets
along with
Clark, the two
do not agree
on strategy.
He was
nevertheless
appointed, for
the purpose of
making an
April 21
filing, only
that scope,
not other
legal research
requested by
Clark. We're
not going to
re-litigate
this case,
Clark was
told. And,
there will be
no new lawyer
after this.
(Clark asked
to have the
courtroom
sealed, but
Inner City
Press held its
ground. Judge
Stein noted,
correctly,
that there is
a high
standard to
seal a
courtroom in a
Federal
criminal
case).
Sentencing
was set for
May 18 at
10:30
am.
The
case is US v.
Clark,
15-cr-866
(Stein)
***
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