Ex-Abercrombie CEO Is Now Mentally Fit to Stand Trial, US Says

Former Abercrombie & Fitch Chief Executive Officer Mike Jeffries, who doctors said was suffering from dementia in April, is now mentally fit to stand trial on sex-trafficking charges, according to a more recent examination of the 81-year-old.

In a letter Wednesday to US District Judge Nusrat Choudhury, prosecutors said Jeffries was found to be competent after a forensic evaluation at a federal prison in Butner, North Carolina, where he was being held. The letter didn’t provide details of the evaluation.

The prison assessment conflicts with adetermination earlier this year, when doctors for prosecutors and defense lawyers conducted ...