No jail for victim of affluenza

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A judge has ordered no jail time for a Texas teenager in a drunken-driving crash that killed four people.

Ethan Couch was given probation last year for the wreck. He was back in court Wednesday after prosecutors requested 20 years in jail on charges related to two injured people.

The hearing was closed to the public. Defense attorney Reagan Wynn told reporters afterward that Judge Jean Boyd ordered the teen to be sent to a rehabilitation facility paid for by his parents.

Attorneys wouldn't identify the facility. However, the family previously offered to pay for a $450,000-a-year center in California.

The sentence has stirred debate, as has a defense expert who says Couch's wealthy parents coddled him into a sense of irresponsibility. The expert termed the condition "affluenza."


http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/06/no-jail-time-for-affluenza-teen-ethan-couch-in-fatal-wreck/5250345/
 
this should be moved to current events......

Texas authorities are searching for the teenager who killed four people in a 2013 drunken-driving wreck near Fort Worth, then claimed as part of his defense that he suffered from "affluenza."

The Dallas Morning News reported Tuesday that Ethan Couch's attorneys say a juvenile probation officer has been unable to contact Couch, 18, or his mother for several days. Reagan Wynn and Scott Brown said a judge has issued a "directive to apprehend" Couch or his mother, with whom he was living.

Couch was 16 when he drunkenly rammed a pickup truck into a crowd of people in 2013, killing four. Two years ago, he was given 10 years' probation after his attorneys asserted Couch's wealthy parents coddled him into irresponsibility. Prosecutors wanted a maximum sentence of 20 years in state custody.

A "directive to apprehend" from a juvenile court is the equivalent of an arrest warning. The Tarrant County District Attorney's office says that Couch faces a prison sentence of up to 10 years if he is found to have violated the terms of his probation.

The Dallas Morning News also reported that authorities are looking into whether Couch is one of several young men who appear in a video of several young men playing beer pong. The person who posted the video online Dec. 2 accused Couch of violating his probation, which prohibits him from drinking alcohol, using drugs or driving. He is also required to attend rehab

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/1...g-4-people-in-crash-sought-for/?intcmp=hplnws
 
I have a feeling he's going to get even more affluenza after his parents ponied up god knows how much money for that brilliant defense lawyer to get him off of 20 years in prison.
 
Most outrageous case of dumbfuckery ever. This asshole snot should do at least 20 hard time. He killed 4 people and injured others. WTF is wrong with this country?
 
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