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1 posted on 12/12/2013 4:22:04 AM PST by Wolfie
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I’m going to predict two things right now. 1) He isn’t going to stop drinking, and 2) These four are not the only people he will wind up killing.


2 posted on 12/12/2013 4:27:27 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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If the parents were responsible for all the carnage by turning this irresponsible failure on society and providing him a car, they should be locked up for the 20 year sentence, and of course, every dime they have should be given to the victims’ families.

And State District Judge Boyd should be barred from the bench. She obviously is not capable of rendering justice. A jury would never have rendered such a verdict in TX. Greg Abbott, TX Atty. Gen,, should check her bank records to see if this outrageous miscarriage of justice was purchased.


3 posted on 12/12/2013 4:34:36 AM PST by txrefugee
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Affluenza Disease — Now I’ve heard it all.

Isn’t the judge exacerbating the kid’s disease with his ruling???


4 posted on 12/12/2013 4:36:25 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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Oy

Somewhere in California?

No curiosity over the neighborhood?


6 posted on 12/12/2013 4:55:33 AM PST by stanne
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Things like this happen every day in 3rd World countries where a person can be too wealthy to go to jail. In those countries, judges are simply paid off by the wealthy, but that could never happen in this country, now could it?


7 posted on 12/12/2013 4:56:34 AM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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The US judicial system thereby proved itself to be a whore.


9 posted on 12/12/2013 5:01:01 AM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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State District Judge Jean Boyd is the one who aborted justice.


12 posted on 12/12/2013 5:08:19 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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what the folk does is parents’ income have to do with his criminal recklessness?

Listen, all you who want to throw away the key, the fact that he was blotto negates intent. Negligent homicide is about all you get. Since he was affluent, he probably had lots of insurance, unlike the minimally insured drunk.

Yes, it is a tragedy all the way around. But putting a 16 year old high school student in a prison population of people who committed intentional crimes is not legal or right. Just the way it is.


13 posted on 12/12/2013 5:14:12 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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Miller said Couch’s parents gave him “freedoms no young person should have," raised in an environment of privilege that afforded him no understanding of actions and their consequences.

5-10 years in prison would give him an excellent understanding of how his actions have consequences.

15 posted on 12/12/2013 5:18:55 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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The judge needs to be impeached and removed and jailed for this miscarriage of justice.


18 posted on 12/12/2013 5:26:27 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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This sentence just makes me mad. Young, rich, stupid, and drunk…. and mommy and daddy make it all possible.


20 posted on 12/12/2013 5:35:11 AM PST by Nifster
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“The psychologist ultimately branded Couch a product of “affluenza.”

If they were poor, it would be called what it is. Bad parenting.


23 posted on 12/12/2013 5:46:25 AM PST by ToastedHead
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So, now being rich and spoiled is a handicap?


27 posted on 12/12/2013 6:22:45 AM PST by drunknsage
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If he had killed a member of my family this would be the outcome I’d want.
Justice would be served.


28 posted on 12/12/2013 6:26:39 AM PST by Vinnie
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They are sending him out of state to prevent others from exacting vengeance on him.

The purpose of the courts is to provide justice. When they fail to do so, vigilantism results. If this young man was found brutally murdered, with the suspected murderer being related to his victims, would a jury of his peers convict him?


32 posted on 12/12/2013 6:50:54 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Last Obamacare Promise: "If You Like Your Eternal Soul, You Can Keep It.")
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And you thought the “Twinkie Defense” was ridiculous.


33 posted on 12/12/2013 6:52:52 AM PST by dfwgator
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N-E-G-L-E-C-T
Find out what it means to kids

It cuts across all demographics - that's the beauty of neglect.
42 posted on 12/12/2013 7:41:29 AM PST by jobim (.)
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What language is he ffluent in?


46 posted on 12/12/2013 7:56:56 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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Seen things like this a few times.

A gentleman that used to be our janitor had his daughter killed by a rich drunk driver. That driver got off, even though he hit the child in the gentleman's front yard.

The gentleman was an undertaker. He visited the young drunk at the hospital, where the nurse left him alone with a scalpel for a few minutes. The drunk had a “Joker” smile as a result, and the gentleman served ten years in prison.

The drunk later killed more people when he pancaked his new sports car into an over pass on I35. The gentleman was released, and now is a prison minister.

We have a legal system, not a justice system.

50 posted on 12/12/2013 8:18:29 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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