A courtroom sketch of Ross William Ulbricht during an appearance at Federal Court more than a year ago in San Francisco. Vicki Behringer/AP Ross Ulbricht is finally getting his day in court, 15 months after plainclothes FBI agents grabbed him in the science fiction section of a San Francisco library and accused him of running the billion-dollar online drug bazaar known as the Silk Road. It’s a day that anyone who cares about crime, punishment and privacy in the shadows of the internet will be watching.

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