Posted on 12/17/2013 10:59:04 AM PST by posterchild
Not to mention that if you or I did what she is alleged to have done, the same thing would happen to us. This “diplomat” is attempting to enslave one of her own based on her country’s customs. We don’t do that here.
I’ll bet she thought she was in New Mexico.
LOL
The Affluenza Defense: Judge Rules Rich Kid’s Rich Kid-ness Makes Him Not Liable for Deadly Drunk Driving Accident
He got 10 years probation for causing a wreck that devastated three families
By Madison Gray @madisonjgrayDec. 12, 2013364 Comments
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Ben Noey Jr. / The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
For most people, conviction for vehicular manslaughter due to drunk driving warrants a lengthy sentence, but not in the case of Ethan Couch, a wealthy young man from the state of Texas.
The Keller, Tex., 16-year-old has a rare condition that a judge believes is best remedied with anything but dealing with the consequences for causing a DWI wreck that killed four people, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.
Couch suffers from “affluenza,” according to his lawyers, a term which means that his wealthy parents pretty much let him get away with everything. The defense saved him from a 20-year sentence; State District Judge Jean Boyd bought it at his sentencing on Tuesday and gave Couch probation instead.
“He never learned that sometimes you don’t get your way,” Gary Miller, a psychologist assigned to Couch said in court. “He had the cars and he had the money. He had freedoms that no young man would be able to handle.”
(MORE: The Co-Author of Affluenza: “I’m Appalled By the Ethan Couch Decision”)
The defense said this led to a rash of irresponsible behavior on the night of June 15 and ended in tragedy. The spree began with Couch stealing beer from a Walmart with his buddies, jumping into a pickup truck and smashing into a woman whose car broke down on a Burleson, Texas road, killing the woman, two people who lived nearby and came to help, and a passerby.
Court testimony revealed that Couch’s blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit. He also admitted being drunk while driving and losing control of his Ford F-150.
He pleaded guilty to four counts of manslaughter by intoxication and two counts of assault by intoxication causing bodily injury. Two teens in the bed of the truck were seriously injured, and one cannot move or talk.
(MORE: “Affluenza” is Junk Science, Says Psychologist)
Texas sentencing guidelines for crimes like this call for fines of up to $10,000 and between 2 and 20 years in the state penitentiary. But instead Couch got 10 years of probation and zero time. If he slips up he could go to jail for 10 years, according to a statement from the Tarrant County District Attorney.
Defense attorney Scott Brown praised Boyd’s decision: “She fashioned a sentence that could have him under the thumb of the justice system for the next 10 years,” he said.
Eric Boyles, who lost his wife and daughter Holly and Shelby in the crash said it was Couch’s wealth that kept him from a harsher sentence.
“Ultimately today, I felt that money did prevail,” he told the Star-Telegram after the sentencing. “If [he] had been any other youth, I feel like the circumstances would have been different.”
I read elsewhere that she said she was paying her housekeeper $4,500 per month.
I think I'll keep my distance on this situation. She may be physically attractive, but I'll leave the hittin' up to Laz.
So setting up the US embassy for an attack is an appropriate response? The Islamists could drive a real wedge between the US and India by launching an attack.
Do diplomats typically get visas to bring housekeepers with them or do they hire locally?
Crime of the century, IMO. Of course she should be strip searched, put in a prison with drug addicts and have her bond set at a higher rate than most murderers.
Khobragade has pleaded not guilty and plans to challenge the arrest on grounds of diplomatic immunity, her lawyer said last week.
lol. i’m innocent but i claim immunity anyway.
There is no excuse possible for this treatment of an Indian diplomat.
Agreed. Expulsion as persona non grata should be the maximum action in this case.
It seems this moron US Attorney, Preet Barara (of Indian origin himself), decided to make a name for himself by pushing the diplomatic immunity envelope. He should be fired for having the bad judgement not to toss the case over to the State Department and shut up in the likely event they file it in the circular file.
The US Attorney's narrow interpretation of diplomatic immunity can only backfire against US diplomats in the future.
If I were the leader of a country whose diplomat with immunity got manhandled and sodomised (anal-vaginal body cavity search) by the official agencies of a foreign government, I would want swift, punitive, retaliatory retribution.
She is supposedly guaranteed diplomatic immunity. If she’s actually committed any crimes then the US has the right to force her to leave the us - and that is all unless India revokes her credentials - which they didn’t.
Now the US had better STFU when some country arrests one of OUR diplomats for jaywalking or not bowing to Mecca and then strip searches and violates them.
That’s how diplomatic immunity works. You can’t arrest a diplomat and she is challenging that arrest.
Watch how US diplomats and their families will now be treated as a result of this.
In this current administration, I would not be surprised if the NSA ransacks her house looking for secrets.
India should recall all diplomats and cut ties with America until this diplomat is returned, uncharged and unharmed.
The question is, did she or did she not have diplomatic immunity?
If so, this is completely unacceptable. You can not arrest someone who has diplomatic immunity. Period.
From my experience with Indian women, I think she is lying about the stripping and cavity searches to milk the situation as much as she can. She’s also lying about her slave’s employment.
I don’t get it, Diplomatic immunity is diplomatic immunity. Doesn’t the state dept get bent out of shape if immunity is ignored?
We shall see if she is ordained immune. Preet Bharara is no joke, and is one of the few competent people in NYC.
That's not our decision or determination to make.
Good question. I don't know, but I would bet US diplomats posted abroad hire locally. On the other hand, a foreign diplomat living in NYC would find it very difficult to hire a nanny for $573 a month. A quick google indicates New York nannies make about that much a week.
However, whether we should tolerate such situations is a foreign policy question, not a matter for this hot-shot US Attorney, Preetinder Singh "Preet" Bharara, the "Sheriff of Wall Street", who has embarrassed his adopted country by strip-searching a foreign diplomat.
Diplomatic Immunity notwithstanding, does a nanny tax issue really justify that sort of treatment? For anyone?
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