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.
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.
Affluenza Disease — Now I’ve heard it all.
Isn’t the judge exacerbating the kid’s disease with his ruling???
Oy
Somewhere in California?
No curiosity over the neighborhood?
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?
The US judicial system thereby proved itself to be a whore.
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.
5-10 years in prison would give him an excellent understanding of how his actions have consequences.
The judge needs to be impeached and removed and jailed for this miscarriage of justice.
This sentence just makes me mad. Young, rich, stupid, and drunk…. and mommy and daddy make it all possible.
“The psychologist ultimately branded Couch a product of “affluenza.”
If they were poor, it would be called what it is. Bad parenting.
So, now being rich and spoiled is a handicap?
If he had killed a member of my family this would be the outcome I’d want.
Justice would be served.
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?
And you thought the “Twinkie Defense” was ridiculous.
What language is he ffluent in?
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.