16 year drives drunk and kills 4 people and gets sentenced...

[A Casual Fitz]

WTF he should get life without parole at this point. I hope he dies in prison.

 

[William Gaatjes]

16 year drives drunk and kills 4 people and gets sentenced to probation. Well that and has to go to a 450k "counseling center" as punishment as well.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...4-drunken-crash-spared-jail-article-1.1544508

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/11/ethan-couch-sentenced_n_4426722.html

His attorney argued he had "Affluenza" and its not his fault as his parents are rich and they gave him to much. Mind you his blood alcohol level was .24.

So remember if you break the law try and be rich, different rules for you.


UPDATE:

Lawsuits are starting to come in. Parents and parents company also sued.

http://kfor.com/2013/12/16/victims-families-file-multimillion-dollar-lawsuits-against-affluenza-teen/

I read influenza at first and thought that it is ridiculous. Now i looked up what affluenza means. Now i had serious doubts about the law enforcement of the USA for a moment, but it happens in other countries as well. 2 years is way too short.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

2 years is way too short, but it's also WAY longer than it looked like he'd get. Given the circumstances and the fucked-up US legal system this is about the best result possible at this point.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

2 years is way too short, but it's also WAY longer than it looked like he'd get. Given the circumstances and the fucked-up US legal system this is about the best result possible at this point.

This isn't necessarily a US thing its a Texas thing.
Our legal system isn't perfect but overall it works pretty well when you compare it to other 1st world places.

 

[A Casual Fitz]

He'll be getting out of prison soon...

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...hat-killed-4/ar-BBKuNiO?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=ientp

What a piece of trash. He should not rejoin society without serious counseling. He has never once acted like a person that's gone through the trauma of ending someone else's life.

 

[Kaido]

He'll be getting out of prison soon...

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...hat-killed-4/ar-BBKuNiO?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=ientp

What a piece of trash. He should not rejoin society without serious counseling. He has never once acted like a person that's gone through the trauma of ending someone else's life.

From the article:

Couch’s parents "taught him a system that's 180 degrees from rational,” the psychologist, Dr. Dick Miller, said at the sentencing. “If you hurt someone, say you're sorry. In that family, if you hurt someone, send some money."

 

[BudAshes]

Just take all the parents money away. Problem solved.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Dang it. Saw this thread bumped and figured he was getting out, but some tiny part of me kept hoping that he got whacked in prison.

 

[Nashemon]

Our justice system is completely fucked. How in the fucking hell do you participate in underage drinking, then drive while completely obliterated, then kill 4 people, then voluntarily violate probation by continuing drinking while underage, then flee to Mexico, and only get 720 days served?

Money. That's how in the fucking hell. Completely fucked.

 

[UNCjigga]

Our justice system is completely fucked. How in the fucking hell do you participate in underage drinking, then drive while completely obliterated, then kill 4 people, then voluntarily violate probation by continuing drinking while underage, then flee to Mexico, and only get 720 days served?

Money. That's how in the fucking hell. Completely fucked.

Also, lower levels of melanin in the skin might help.

 

[zinfamous]

Our justice system is completely fucked. How in the fucking hell do you participate in underage drinking, then drive while completely obliterated, then kill 4 people, then voluntarily violate probation by continuing drinking while underage, then flee to Mexico, and only get 720 days served?

Money. That's how in the fucking hell. Completely fucked.

Hopefully this trash family got a yuge Tax break from Trump's glorious patriotic tax bill! Imagine how many more peasant deaths they can afford now!

Trump probably even sent them a Presidential Medal of Freedom because he likes their style so much.

 

[Sonikku]

To be fair, all he did was kill people and then violate his probation. Not like he made a bunch of Windows restore discs or something serious.

 

[JimKiler]

To be fair, all he did was kill people and then violate his probation. Not like he made a bunch of Windows restore discs or something serious.

If he possessed child pornography he would have gotten a much much much lengthier sentence.

 

[HomerJS]

Our justice system is completely fucked. How in the fucking hell do you participate in underage drinking, then drive while completely obliterated, then kill 4 people, then voluntarily violate probation by continuing drinking while underage, then flee to Mexico, and only get 720 days served?

Money. That's how in the fucking hell. Completely fucked.

white privilege

 

[madoka]

The icing on the cake is how his family said that he shouldn't go to jail because they'd pay for him to go to the best rehab center available. Then after sentencing, claimed they couldn't afford it and made taxpayers pick up the tab.

 

[JimKiler]

The icing on the cake is how his family said that he shouldn't go to jail because they'd pay for him to go to the best rehab center available. Then after sentencing, claimed they couldn't afford it and made taxpayers pick up the tab.

Are you kidding me!

 

[madoka]

Are you kidding me!

In court, his parents argued that jail was inappropriate because they would send him to the best rehab around.

Then they turned around and did this:

Texas taxpayers footed nearly all of a $200,000 bill for the “affluenza” teen’s court-ordered rehab — a punishment ordered after the brat’s lawyer argued he was too wealthy and privileged to go to prison — because his parents were found “financially unable to pay” for the therapy.

Ethan Couch, who was 16 years old when he killed four people in a 2013 DUI crash, was ordered to probation and a rehabilitation stint at the North Texas State Hospital in Vernon, where treatment costs nearly $700 a day.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Pisses me off so much that justice is based on how much money you have. With enough money you can commit any crime you want, with no money you get sentenced over the most ridiculous petty crimes. Look at something like what Aaron Swartz did. He illegally downloaded a bunch of PDF files off a server. Nobody possibly could get hurt from something like that, yet they wanted to put him in jail for like 25 years with no parole. (or was it 35, I forget)

 

[JimKiler]

In court, his parents argued that jail was inappropriate because they would send him to the best rehab around.

Then they turned around and did this:

Do residents of Texas have a basis to sue his parents and recoup the costs of that rebab?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Mom is headed to jail again, tested positive for banned substance:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...n-couch-is-back-in-jail/ar-AAAIxB1?li=BBnb7Kz

Article cites Meth, another cited meth and some other chemical drug that I cannot remember

 

[zinfamous]

Has this family been offered positions in the Trump administration yet?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Has this family been offered positions in the Trump administration yet?

Hahahhaahahaha!!!!!

 

[Linux23]

Has this family been offered positions in the Trump administration yet?

they'd be great handling this opiod epidemic.

 

[DrunkenSano]

Entire family should be sentenced to forced manual labor for life. Their assets stripped completely, an appropriate amount given to the family, pay back the loan they received from tax payers for rehab bill, and any left over distribute to the appropriate charities. Forced manual labor should be the punishment for criminals with affluenza and stripping of assets.

 

[Muse]

I've never driven a car drunk in my life. Don't do it!