Thought long and hard about that and went through a lot of the legal documentation to figure out what exactly could be proven regarding the “hits” and the certainty of it being Ross choosing to go for it after the entrapment from the agents.
This is the result of my research:

https://medium.com/@buttercuproberts/the-only-thing-missing-in-the-ross-ulbricht-story-is-compassion-3b1807bb7fed