Isn’t “affluenza” a joke from a Rush Limbaugh parody bit?
recall effort - big time on the “judge “ that allowed
this defense-
If they find a really ridiculously stupid judge it could work.
It doesn’t take money to spoil a kid.
Bad grades at school? Mom does your homework for you.
Neighbors broken window? Some other kid must done it because MINE n ever would.
Sent to the principal and given detention? Hey Buddy....let’s go skiing this weekend.
I watched in horror as this happened over the years to some middle-class white folks I know.
They kid now has multiple arrests and convictions, has spent probably 3 years in confinement, no diploma, no GED, no chance of rehabilitating.
And, he’s not even 21 yet
I should add....
Tens of thousands of Dads hard-earned dollars kept him from going to jail before he finally racked up enough convictions a judge couldn’t let it slide when he was found with several pounds of pot and a gun
“No, my empathy begins and ends with the victims and their shattered families”
And “poor iddle Eathan” is laughing at them.
Hopefully there will be a line of ambulance chasing lawyers 20 miles long chasing the family until they have been bankrupted.
What a wonderful judicial system!
Stinking, spoiled brat should be in prison “married” to a 300 pound husband named Fang.
If the judge is going to accept that garbage, then she should put the parents in jail for killing those four people
The problem with assuming wealth causes irresponsibility or bad behavior is that the solution is then wealth confiscation.
Little rich bastards have been getting away with murder as long as I can remember. When I was just a yute in the fifties and I would bring up things like this he would say...it’s always better to be rich than poor. Pretty damn simple logic and still just as true!!!
why does he even need rehab? plenty of people drink and drive, but are not alcoholics. I really don’t think rehab will fix his problem. He needed to feel the pain of a long jail sentence and not a posh resort.
If he killed one of my relatives, I would be happy with the sentence because then I would be able to kill him.
About equivalent to the “Twinkie” defense.
this is more hate the rich who are preying on us crapola
if some inner city kid had done it, no one would be mad that a 16 year old wasn’t thrown into prison to be raped because he was hopeless and disadvantaged
so, is everybody really saying we will hold the rich to a higher standard because they are rich? wrong so wrong
obviously the kid needs help. obviously everybody was compensated by the insurance company. obviously the judge can’t make it any better.
but without evidence that it was a known pattern of behavior, it is not punishable by a prison term
what is wrong with people?
obama’s press is trying to get everybody to hate the “rich”.
who wouldn’t get their kid a lawyer if their kid was in trouble? that is what lawyers are for. anybody who simply throws themselves on the mercy of the court is a flipping idiot. The court can’t seek out and present evidence to itself. a kid has no idea what evidence is and most people don’t either. the facts have to be argued and presented. that is what the court is for. there is no foregone conclusion such as well 4 died in a car wreck plus alcohol involved equals prison time. this is not Saudi Arabia or north Korea.
here is when you get prison for drunk driving
http://www.legalnews4you.com/blog/2010/11/18/man-convicted-of-9th-dwi-receives-life-in-prison/
This verdict, while farcical, actually isn’t as bad as it looks. The parents think that they were smart in getting some high dollar shrink to find a way to get the criminal charges to teflon off their kid, but the verdict actually identifies the parents as causal factors in the collision. This means that they are also now civilly liable in up to four wrongful death suits as well bodily injury suits from the injuries sustained by the kid’s friends, as well as all the property damage.
They wouldn’t have exposures like that if junior had been convicted of DUI and manslaughter/”involuntary homicide” as the liability would have rested solely on him.
In essence they’ve been cursed by their own hubris.
This case is outrageous but it happens in a lot of cases. No one wants to be responsible for their actions anymore. Way too many people in this country are like kids who get caught doing something bad and want Mommy and Daddy to let them off the hook or cut them a break. Our society has made “personal responsibility” a bad word and we now are reaping what we sowed.
What did a 16 year old, in Newport Beach, need an F350 truck for?
In the county where I live, the lefties are always touting the benefits of public transportation or bikes. My response to them is always to put their own kids back on the school buses or public buses and close the school parking lots to students. It would solve a lot of the traffic congestion and prevent a lot of accidents.
Cue Malcolm McDowell being fed steaky-wakes and eggy-wegs.