ChainCatcher reported that according to CoinDesk, at a hearing on Friday, a US judge postponed the trial of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm, originally scheduled for September, to December 2. Prosecutor Thane Rehn said the trial is expected to last two weeks.
The central question in the Justice Department’s case against Roman Storm is whether he created the software or controlled the service. At a hearing on Friday, defense attorney Brian Klein of Waymaker LLP argued that Storm no longer controlled Tornado Cash after May 2020 — the period during which the Justice Department alleges Storm broke the law by running Tornado Cash.
Waymaker’s Keri Axel added that Tornado Cash’s user interface itself does not control the transactions that users send. The defense repeatedly stressed that Storm did not control Tornado Cash’s pools, which are immutable, and therefore Storm cannot be criminally responsible for how people use mixers.
The judge made no decision Friday, saying he would rule on the motions "expeditiously."