LOL! Who IS this guy anyway? He seems like a straw man to me... 
http://nypost.com/2013/12/23/government-robbed-me-of-33m-in-bitcoins-silk-road-pirate/

http://nypost.com/2013/12/23/government-robbed-me-of-33m-in-bitcoins-silk-road-pirate/
wow, even though he is going to lose, the courts are going to have to make a ruling on it, and more or less claim that btc is property and thus give it all sorts of rights.
pretty cool for btc.
also he more or less admitting to running silk road must mean his case is extremely weak.
Will this force the US government to wait longer to do anything with all of that BTC? That could be good for Bitcoin's value too I would think. The longer they wait to sell is less coin on the market.
They cannot sell until after the court case. They can seize assets but they can't sell them off before it's proven they are criminal assets.