had it been my family it killed, the judge would never have seen this day...
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
In the US you get all the justice you can afford, it’s just an inverse curve.
What a disgusting joke. And yet the local rich guy here - John Goodman from Wellington, FL, decent guy but wrong place, wrong time to be drunk - his trial was a classic class envy showcase. Not saying he shouldn’t be doing the time. He took someone’s life. I’m saying so should this kid.
The argument was that his parents didn’t teach him right from wrong. If that excuse is to be accepted then both of his parents should have been tried and served a typical sentence for vehicular homicide and the kid put into a program to teach him right from wrong. The USMC might suffice for that.
Hey, it worked for Ted Kennedy. He murdered a woman and go away with it where an average Joe would have died in prison.
Obviously we must ban vehicles and certain vehicle features, it’s “common sense car control.”
/ Obvious sarc.
This idiot shouldn’t be free, the sentence didn’t fit the crime.
As a FW resident, this hits close to home.
Tarrant County (Fort Worth) is jokingly called “Tolerant County” because of cr@p like this.
“The USMC might suffice for that.”
Or most FReeper parents.
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FW resident here as well (in spite of moniker). I remember how upset I was that this puke is only serving time because he screwed up his probation. His mom is in trouble again, I believe.
News story I heard on WBAP was interesting, “this boy, now a man” blech
What an obscenity! I am surprised that this sentence stood without being overturned, so much for justice.
‘JuiceStice” ain’t what it used to be in Texas. It seems to have lost a bit of its bite.
I don’t think there is an ounce of remorse in him.
had it been my family it killed, the judge would never have seen this day...
I believe in the Law until it interferes with Justice.
Absolutely zero.
...“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.
Thanks NRx.
Since the State did not provide justice it appears fitting that a member of the family who were the victims of this criminal sees that a just punishment is administered. I know that would be my approach.
Just saw this on the local news. I wonder how much the family paid the judge for his original ruling? This judge needs investigating....disgusting. Didn’t’ know right from wrong? What utter BS!
We need to ban this dangerous drug.
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