Allen Stanford Too Drugged for Trial, Lawyer Says
Jailed financier R. Allen Stanford is too heavily medicated to prepare for or testify at his January trial on charges he led a $7 billion investment fraud, his lawyer claimed in a bid for bail.
Stanford, 60, has been held as a flight risk in a Houston federal lockup since June 2009, when he was charged in an indictment with selling bogus certificates of deposit at his Antigua-based Stanford International Bank Ltd.
Mr. Stanfords mental, emotional and physical health are drastically deteriorating, Ali Fazel, the financiers co-lead lawyer, said yesterday in papers in federal court in Houston seeking Stanfords release. These medications have left Mr. Stanford in an unfocused and numbed state of mind and have created a condition where the accused can no longer assist counsel or invoke basic constitutional rights.
If he's in a "Houston federal lockup" what the fuck are they dosing him with?
Why don't they WATERBOARD him until he snaps out of it?
Jailed financier R. Allen Stanford is too heavily medicated to prepare for or testify at his January trial on charges he led a $7 billion investment fraud, his lawyer claimed in a bid for bail.
Stanford, 60, has been held as a flight risk in a Houston federal lockup since June 2009, when he was charged in an indictment with selling bogus certificates of deposit at his Antigua-based Stanford International Bank Ltd.
Mr. Stanfords mental, emotional and physical health are drastically deteriorating, Ali Fazel, the financiers co-lead lawyer, said yesterday in papers in federal court in Houston seeking Stanfords release. These medications have left Mr. Stanford in an unfocused and numbed state of mind and have created a condition where the accused can no longer assist counsel or invoke basic constitutional rights.
If he's in a "Houston federal lockup" what the fuck are they dosing him with?
Why don't they WATERBOARD him until he snaps out of it?
