I thought at the time that he had been set up, something to do with "breaking up" the Eagles who were a huge moneymaker at the time. It even seemed possible that one of his bandmates set him up (or ratted him out) because there was a lot of bad blood between them.

Not excusing him at all, though. And of course, when you consider that alcohol, Quaaludes and cocaine were all involved (probably weed as well), who knows exactly what happened or which story is "true"? It makes all of them unreliable narrators.