Posted on 04/02/2018 3:13:42 PM PDT by NRx
The math comes out to precisely 180.
That is how many days Ethan Couch served for each of the four people he killed while driving drunk on June 15, 2013. He was speeding at 65 mph when he plowed his father’s Ford F-350 into a group of people on the roadside helping a stranded motorist outside Fort Worth. He was 16 at the time.
Couch, now 20, was released from Tarrant County jail on Monday after serving two years, or 720 days, for a parole violation — not for the deaths of four people.
His release will close a chapter on the story of a teenager turned adult struggling with a bout of “affluenza” that his legal team claimed left him unable to tell right from wrong because of his family’s wealth. The case took a bizarre turn in 2015 after a video of Couch drinking, a violation of his probation, surfaced online and appeared to trigger an escape to Mexico with his mother.
The incident also prompted a national discussion about how privilege and money appear to bolster legal defenses beyond access to elite lawyers.
...Couch, drunk, with traces of Valium in his blood and driving a truck filled with seven other teenagers, left the dark two-lane road and crashed into Mitchell’s vehicle. The collision killed Mitchell, the Boyleses and Jennings before slamming into Jennings’s truck, sending the vehicle into traffic. Body parts and wreckage were scattered for nearly 300 feet, D Magazine reported.
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” had it been my family it killed, the judge would never have seen this day...”
If it had been my family, the killer would not have lived long enough for the judge to have to worry about sentencing him.
This is wrong. Hopefully he’ll be back in jail by the end of the year WITHOUT hurting anyone else.
The Marines have standards. I don’t think they would take someone like him. I don’t know of any military that would.
Some standards!
The French Foreign Legion would.
He’ll be back.
I believe the judge retired right after the case was decided.
“The French Foreign Legion would.”
I don’t think so. The FFL has a long history of taking hard cases and people who have had a brush with the law and that want a chance to hit the reset button in their life. But there are limits. Applicants generally can’t be married or have any legal dependents. They can’t be in serious debt or have active warrants for their arrest. They won’t take anyone guilty of what they used to call “crimes against manhood.” This has generally been understood to include murder, mayhem, sexual crimes and drug dealing. And they do very detailed background checks on applicants through INTERPOl and French/NATO intelligence services. Anyone with possible connections to organized crime or political/religious extremism is also barred.
He’s not done with jail.
He got picked up from jail in one of his dad’s Tesla and taken to a pretty nice house They showed it on the local news.
I'll give it a year before he's in the news again. I hope in the interim he does not gain access to a hand gun or rifle. He may want to hurt someone and that would be a travesty, especially since the Tarrant County Judicial system failed to act on a reasonable punishment for the crime.
If you're a native Texan and can't drive safely at 16, you've got no business being on the road anytime, day or night. Least of all if you're drunk. At 16, he must have been aware that truck accidents kill people all the time. I learned to drive at 10, passed my drivers license test at 14, and I knew that from experience. Some of my fellow students were killed in vehicle accidents while driving to school in bad weather. Others in gun-related accidents while hunting rabbits, but that's another story. We learned we were only made of flesh and blood and accidents can be fatal. That next time it could be me so pay attention.
In Texas today, we have to drive defensibly watching other drivers for sudden moves/stops, while keeping an eye open for children, deer, dogs, disabled vehicles, rocks thrown from overpasses, and trash in the middle of the road. Gone are the old days of speed like a demon from hell and watch out for sheriff deputies, local policemen, and armadillos and deer at feeding time.
Some late parenting and lots of money are not going to help turn life around for him. He's two years older and an adult, which means he is on his own and no longer a minor under their control.
So watch out.
Sorry, in a perfect world some of the victims’ relatives find this a-hole and “disappear” him.
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