Stanford unfit for trial due to alcoholism: judge

[shortie]

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.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/af...docId=CNG.391be13f5003e921395f959c27eff5e6.e1

poor guy can't get a break

 

[LeeD]

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

 

[Samsara]

Quote from LeeD:

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.

 

[PocketChange]

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

 

[brocklanders]

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"

 

[shortie]

Quote from Samsara:

No, just shortie demonstrating he is illiterate.

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