Federal prosecutors rest their case in the Silk Road trial

Federal prosecutors in the Silk Road case made their closing arguments by directing the jury to "connect the dots" among the “mountain” of digital evidence.

U.S. Justice Department Attorney Serrin Turner said: “The evidence is overwhelming that Ross Ulbricht started Silk Road, and kept it running until his arrest" The "mountain" of evidence included Ulbricht’s Gmail and Facebook accounts, as well as thousands of pages of chat logs and a journal found on the laptop that Ulbricht was using during the time of his arrest.

“There are no little elves who put all this evidence on his computer. Use your common sense, ladies and gentlemen,” Turner implored the jury.

In his defense, Ulbricht's lawyers are arguing that Ulbricht handed off the site to other operators shortly after he started it in 2011, and that he rejoined immediately prior to his arrest, lured back in by the new operators to serve as a fall guy.