Roman Storm said on X that SDNY prosecutors filed a letter asking Judge Katherine Polk Failla to set a retrial after jurors deadlocked on money laundering and sanctions counts in the Tornado Cash case. He framed the move as another attempt to criminalize writing code.
Today, the SDNY prosecutors filed a letter to Judge Failla requesting a retrial date. They want to go again in October. The prosecutors want to retry me on 2 counts the jury couldn't unanimously decide on. A jury of 12 Americans heard 4 weeks of evidence and deadlocked: no… pic.twitter.com/ZG5pGy4Mer
— Roman Storm
(@rstormsf) March 10, 2026
According to the case update, prosecutors want the retrial scheduled for October 2026. Storm said the request arrives despite what he sees as a more favorable U.S. policy climate for crypto and privacy tools, pointing to recent signals that the DOJ should not act as a digital-assets regulator.
The immediate next step is whether Judge Failla grants a new trial date and how Storm’s defense responds. For developers and privacy advocates, the case remains a closely watched test of how far U.S. authorities can go in linking open-source software creators to the conduct of users.
Source: Roman Storm (X).
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