The Samourai Wallet developers pled guilty because the case was unwinnable.
The judge was not going to allow half the evidence to be shown to the jury.
The judge was mysteriously swapped from Judge Berman to Judge Cote, a federal judge appointed by Bill Clinton.
Smarty pants
So basically no different to Ross' trial. Only that this time the FBI didn't illegally hack servers in a foreign country to "gather evidence"
This is called a humiliation ritual. You should be using that term to describe the case, of which this was. The fact that Trump allowed the case to go the way it did shows he's a blackmailer.
For those who like Trump, sorry, but his power was stripped, as shown in this judgment from the International Common Law Court of Justice here:
