Fazel said there are many grounds for appeal.

Stanford, who sustained head injuries in a 2009 inmate assault at a Houston jail, became addicted to prescription anti- anxiety drugs and spent almost nine months in a federal prison hospital in North Carolina. His lawyers tried to delay the trial, arguing that their client was suicidal and might never sufficiently recover from the beating to face a jury.

Hittner declared Stanford legally competent and ordered the trial to go ahead.

"That will be an issue," Fazel said. "It will be a lengthy appeal."

The criminal case is U.S. v. Stanford, 09-cr-00342, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas (Houston). The SEC case is Securities and Exchange Commission v. Stanford International Bank Ltd., 09-cv-298, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas (Dallas).

 

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