"Life comes at you fast," doesn't it Allen Stanford? (Just ask MC Hammer).

One day you are have a net worth of $2.2 billion, an office with its own five-star dining room, movie theater, professional kitchen and wine bar, and island nations such as Antigua are granting you knighthood. The next you are arrested for an alleged $7 billion dollar fraud, severely beaten up by fellow inmates while awaiting trial, found guilty on thirteen counts related to the alleged Ponzi scheme and sentenced to 110 years in a high-security prison in Florida (in addition to becoming the first person ever to be stripped of your knighthood in Antigua).

Stanford headed off to U.S.Penitentiary Coleman II back in 2012, and not much had been heard from him since that time. That changed when Stanford filed a 299-page brief last month with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that set forth 15 different arguments as to why his conviction should be overturned. The brief was reportedly filed pro se by Stanford, who had, not surprisingly given his track record with lawyers, already fired his court-appointed lawyer.

Stanford's arguments fall into two main categories: (1) that the United States did not have jurisdiction over his offshore business that he says was "regulated by - and only by - Financial Services Regulatory Commission of Antigua and Barbuda;" and (2) that the trial court handling his criminal case made significant errors, including forcing Stanford to stand trial while suffering from a traumatic brain injury (from the beating he received in prison) that "profoundly affected his ability to communicate with his attorneys and prepare his defense."

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