Nope, you're completely wrong. It's not a misconception that Ulbricht wasn't convicted for the hit-man scheme because that wasn't part of the New York indictment. A person is "charged" with "counts" of specific crimes. The murder-for-hire is mentioned only as an alleged overt act in pursuance of a Narcotics Trafficking Conspiracy count with which Ulbricht is charged.
Someone else has already provided the indictment in the New York court case. http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/download.html?id=126792875&... Nowhere in the New York indictment is Ulbricht charged with attempted murder or murder-for-hire.
The murder-for-hire charge was part of a Maryland court case in which Force and the other convicted investigator participated and which was subsequently dropped because of their malfeasance. See Count 2 of the Superseding Indictment. https://ia601904.us.archive.org/1/items/gov.uscourts.mdd.238....
Other commenters have already pointed out your error. Don't compound it by trying to argue legal semantics you clearly don't understand.
I have no idea why you think a citation to the Maryland case involving Force is some kind of mic drop. What part of this analysis of the New York case that I wrote a month ago do you disagree with? Can you be as specific as possible? You've identified yourself in the past as a criminal defense lawyer (I am not a lawyer), so you should have no trouble knocking it down.
Someone else has already provided the indictment in the New York court case. http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/download.html?id=126792875&... Nowhere in the New York indictment is Ulbricht charged with attempted murder or murder-for-hire. The murder-for-hire charge was part of a Maryland court case in which Force and the other convicted investigator participated and which was subsequently dropped because of their malfeasance. See Count 2 of the Superseding Indictment. https://ia601904.us.archive.org/1/items/gov.uscourts.mdd.238....
Other commenters have already pointed out your error. Don't compound it by trying to argue legal semantics you clearly don't understand.