The jury in the trial against Roman Storm is still deliberating and has requested the testimonies of FBI tracing expert Joseph DeCapua and KYC/AML witness Philip Werlau.
Requesting these two testimonies is particularly interesting as Werlau had argued that Tornado Cash *could have* stopped illicit funds from entering the protocol by employing 'a central user registry' to check user's identities (i.e. KYC).
Werlau also testified that he had employed a "gas fee analysis" to determine that North Korea used the Tornado Cash UI, underlining his theory that KYC on the TC frontend would have stopped criminal proceeds.
If you want to know why this is nonsense, jump to the 30min mark in our podcast where we discuss why the gas fee analysis doesn't make sense, why it's much more likely that North Korea used a script, and what Werlau's suggestions actually would have stopped (hint: it's nothing).
I'm not a lawyer, but it seems that at least one of the jurors is not bamboozled by the Government, which should be a very good thing as juries must reach a unanimous verdict.
