Stanford unfit for trial due to alcoholism: judge

Stanford unfit for trial: judge

(AFP) – 5 hours ago

LOS ANGELES — Financier and cricket mogul Allen Stanford is unfit to stand trial on charges of running a $7-billion fraud and needs treatment for a drug addiction, a US judge ruled.
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poor guy can't get a break

 

I never realised having too many drinks could be a defense in a fraud case. Is it legal history in making or what?

 

No, just shortie demonstrating he is illiterate.

 

How's he getting booze in prison?
He's been clean and sober for at least 2 years.

 

I think it was more due to him being cracked in the skull by another inmate.

"They found the 60-year-old was also depressed and incompetent to stand trial due to a brain injury he sustained during a 2009 jailhouse brawl, and recommended he be weaned off the drug"

 

sorry, i just skimmed through it. i swear last night i read "alcoholism". either i was drunk or they fixed the article.