How can we get back to here?
Hey remember Allen Stanford? It’s been a while, hasn’t it? When we last checked in with the accused Ponzier, in December, a prison psychologist was arguing that if the guy wasn’t let out of jail ASAP, it was very likely he’d “a complete nervous breakdown.” Apparently that wasn’t a convincing argument for those who make the decisions as to whether or not people are just allowed to up and leave because he’s still there, asking to be freed. Stanford, who never recovered after the SEC robbed him of being listed as the 405th wealthiest person in the world by Forbes, said in a filing that he should be cut loose because 1) keeping him behind bars is unconstitutional 2) he’s been getting some serious shit kicked out of him.
In a filing on Tuesday with the federal court in Houston, lawyers for Stanford said their client had been “subjected to substantial and undeniable punishment,” including nearly a year of incarceration and both physical and psychological damage. This and the prospect of more than a year of further custody until and during his trial, which is scheduled to start in January 2011, violates his constitutional rights to due process, effective assistance of counsel, a speedy trial, and an absence of excessive bail, the lawyers said. “When Mr. Stanford surrendered to authorities, he was a healthy 59-year-old man,” Stanford’s Houston-based lawyer, Robert Bennett, wrote in a brief on which Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz consulted.
“Mr. Stanford’s pretrial incarceration has reduced him to a wreck of a man: he has suffered potentially life-impairing illnesses; he has been so savagely beaten that he has lost all feeling in the right side of his face and has lost near-field vision in his right eye,” Bennett said. Saying their client had neither the motive to flee nor the means, having been declared “indigent” by court, Stanford’s lawyers urged that he be placed under house arrest at the home of his fiancee’s sister, with an ankle bracelet and other travel restrictions.
pussy.
-Berns
thems’ prison rules, ya thief
We warned him not to drop the soap in the shower……
– Jake “Tiny” McPhearson
I thought gay guys liked prison…
-Not the Head Slapper, but a fan of his work.
sure put an ankle bracelet on him, paramaters too, no drugs, alcohol, visitors, curfew, and I am sure he will f-up
You can be anything you want in america, even a fake billionaire, as long as you don’t go to prison. Once you do, you’re not a citizen anymore. You’re actually barely human. That’s just the way it is.
Madoff handled his fall from grace with much more tact and elegance.
@6…and we can sleep soundly at night knowing no one attending Harvard is “fake” so to speak.
GENIUS!! Unbenknownst to the rest of the US, Mr. Stanford is trying to ease the burden of the Prison System. You see he uses his influence and money to declare prison unconstituional, that way we can release a lot of other criminals and our prisons instantly get less crowded. Touche Stanford, you sir are a true American.
@ 7 – this is true. AS should shut up its embarrasing
Anal_yst, any thoughts on savage ass poundings with little to no lube?
-Your best friend, Stanfy
fish fish fish fish fish
Suicide>Prison
have your lawyer file a writ of habeus corpus
you make the bed…. you have to sleep in it
Why should prison be a place of psychological and physical torture? You can have humane incarceration – why do we think prison rape is acceptable?
Thank God Alan Dershowitz is there to look out for the little guy
let him rot. i have had to be a prisoner oh my apt in poverty due to that crook. i had worked hard and thought i was putting my mony in safe investments.
It is a travesty that the US Government can incarcerate a man, liquidate millions (if not billions) of assets on the premise that he be guilty. Whether you like Allen Stanford or not, we should all be extremely terrified that the US Government can exert this degree of will on a man who at this time has STILL NOT been convicted of a SINGLE crime. HOW would he ever be reconciled if he were ACQUITTED???!!! This is a CLEAR CASE of the government overrunning it’s due process and rights to a speedy trial and alleged montra of ‘innocent until proven guilty.’ It’s disgusting. This man should be set free so he can prepared for trial. The ONLY REASON that can be understood why he hasn’t is that his case will EXPOSE the level of fraud and abuse by the Federal Government for the WORLD to see on a grand stage. So they are obviously trying to prevent that from happening by breaking him while incarcerated. I’m repulsed by the legal system in this matter…
And who are the idiots on this site claiming that “mom’s investments” were lost with Stanford? Hello, morons, the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT collapsed this empire – NOT STANFORD. Hell, he redeemed over $500 million in CASH in October of 2008 to people wanting OUT of the market due to the housing crash. Why didn’t “Mom” get her money then? This guy (unlike Madoff) had assets – TONS of them. CD’s, Cash, Real Estate, Jets, you name it. Madoff had an apartment in NYC. He had “0″ to hand out. Stop being so STUPID. The government could have handled this in a way that a LARGE portion of the assets could have been preserved, recovered and distributed back to ‘mom.’ But because the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT brought this thing down in a Mafioso grand manner so they could have something to show the public how there wasn’t going to be another Madoff, you idiots think it was Stanford’s fault? Be prepared – be VERY prepared for Stanford’s acquittal. If he survives to trial and the government is exposed for IT”S ROLE in this fiasco, you might be suprised. Hell, you should all be disgusted that this could happen to YOU and for nothing more than an ‘indictment.’ Grow a brain people…
The government can seize your assets on mere probable cause, and hold them for forfeiture, alleging they are criminal proceeds—they
can file a civil case against the assets themselves (no criminal charges, much less of conviction of anyone for a crime), and then stay the case ” ex parte “(on their say so alone) while they take as long as they like to build a criminal case. They can then name the same assets in a criminal indictment, and continue to hold them for forfeiture in the criminal trial….again, if the person pleads NOT GUILTY (as Stanford has—as opposed to Madoff, who came out of the barn agreeing to his crime)—there is no “day in court” to discuss those assets until the CONCLUSION of the trial—which for Stanford is still over six months away. All
the time these alleged criminal proceeds are held by the Gov, the Defendant is NOT allowed to have them, even to hire an attorney to defend himself against the charges (you would think 6th amendment rights would be implicated, but no, the courts have said “you wouldn’t want the bank robber to use stolen funds to hire an attorney, would you?”, but the problem is, the Bank robber
(nor Stanford) has been CONVICTED of the crime yet—the Gov just
THINKS(with alleged support, from THEIR point of view) that the seized funds are the stolen monies (or ponzi scheme funds or criminal proceeds, or whatever). We’ll see at trial, which by the
way….Good luck hiring a lawyer against the unlimited power of the US Government!! Among the huge possible sentences, the unfair
grab of assets which is becoming more pervasive, the unrelenting
pressure on other possible parties to turn, and the unlimited resources of the Gov, no wonder they Feds have a 96% conviction rate. You would think conviction rates that high would only be found in say….Nazi Germany. But no, only 4% of cases go to Trial (numerous gov. reports on line to support this) Anyone who
pleads “not guilty” and goes to trial against such overwhelming odds should be given some credence and respect. It’s David vs. Goliath every time—and with white collar crime, you have to determine first—-Has a crime even been committed? and if so, is
this the person who did it? (as opposed to “dead body” “Someone is responsible”. To see how pervasive forfeiture is becoming in this country, see “Forfeiture.gov” for pages and pages of property
seized by our Government.
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