drunk cac kills 4 people in car accident and avoids prison due to 'affluenza'

[Trill Clinton]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/11/ethan-couch-sentenced_n_4426722.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/11/ethan-couch-sentenced_n_4426722.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009 )

A 16-year-old avoided spending time in prison for killing four people in a car accident in June after the judge bought his lawyers' argument that he was the victim of wealth.

CBSDFW reports that Ethan Couch was sentenced to 10 years probation for the drunk driving crash that ended the lives of youth pastor, Brian Jennings; Hollie and Shelby Boyles; and Breanna Mitchell.

Prosecutors asked that Couch serve 20 years in prison. His blood alcohol level was .24, three times the legal limit for an adult.

Psychologist G. Dick Miller testified for the defense that Couch suffered from "affluenza," a condition in which "his family felt that wealth bought privilege and there was no rational link between behavior and consequences," KHOU reported.:rolleyes

Miller said Couch's parents never punished him for his behavior, even when, in a separate incident, cops found him passed out in a car with a naked 14-year-old girl.

As part of his sentence, Couch will be sent to a private counseling center that costs $450,000, which will be paid for by his father.

Money and privilege has helped defendants avoid serious prison time for violent crimes before.

In a particularly clear example, cited by journalist Glenn Greenwald, hedge fund manager Martin Joel Erzinger served just 90 days in jail after driving the car that seriously injured a bicyclist and fled the scene of the accident in 2010.

The district attorney in the case charged Erzlinger with two misdemeanors instead of a felony, noting that "felony convictions have some pretty serious job implications for someone in Mr. Erzinger's profession."

Hat tip: Gawker



another article with the pictures of the victims


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2521743/Ethan-Couch-crash-Drink-driving-teen-killed-spared-jail-hes-rich.html

[UZER]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/11/ethan-couch-sentenced_n_4426722.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/11/ethan-couch-sentenced_n_4426722.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009 )

A 16-year-old avoided spending time in prison for killing four people in a car accident in June after the judge bought his lawyers' argument that he was the victim of wealth.

CBSDFW reports that Ethan Couch was sentenced to 10 years probation for the drunk driving crash that ended the lives of youth pastor, Brian Jennings; Hollie and Shelby Boyles; and Breanna Mitchell.

Prosecutors asked that Couch serve 20 years in prison. His blood alcohol level was .24, three times the legal limit for an adult.

Psychologist G. Dick Miller testified for the defense that Couch suffered from "affluenza," a condition in which "his family felt that wealth bought privilege and there was no rational link between behavior and consequences," KHOU reported.:rolleyes

Miller said Couch's parents never punished him for his behavior, even when, in a separate incident, cops found him passed out in a car with a naked 14-year-old girl.

As part of his sentence, Couch will be sent to a private counseling center that costs $450,000, which will be paid for by his father.

Money and privilege has helped defendants avoid serious prison time for violent crimes before.

In a particularly clear example, cited by journalist Glenn Greenwald, hedge fund manager Martin Joel Erzinger served just 90 days in jail after driving the car that seriously injured a bicyclist and fled the scene of the accident in 2010.

The district attorney in the case charged Erzlinger with two misdemeanors instead of a felony, noting that "felony convictions have some pretty serious job implications for someone in Mr. Erzinger's profession."

Hat tip: Gawker



another article with the pictures of the victims


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2521743/Ethan-Couch-crash-Drink-driving-teen-killed-spared-jail-hes-rich.html

Well apparently they were right.
What a joke

[Suspect]

Trill wouldn't of cared if it was a black kid

hell, he probably would of been that black kid tbh

[chunticakes]

Trill wouldn't of cared if it was a black kid

hell, he probably would of been that black kid tbh

this.

[Trainwreck2100]

so the court has ruled it's the parents fault for his actions. I hope the families of the victims clean said parents out in civil court

[Trill Clinton]

:crytrill stop making fun of us sawms and make fun of minorities like the rest of us!

[Bill_Brasky]

so the court has ruled it's the parents fault for his actions. I hope the families of the victims clean said parents out in civil court

hell yeah. break those fuckers.

[Bill_Brasky]

:crytrill stop making fun of us sawms and make fun of minorities like the rest of us!

let he who is without sin etc etc

[Chingo Bling]

Don't get mad to him because you chop at Big Lots. Pobre pendejo grew up getting trophys for showing up to school. Get mad to the parents. Those vavosos raised a putito for a son. They need to go to prison and then have puto jr.'s feria cut off.

[Katherine Robinson]

:crytrill stop making fun of us sawms and make fun of minorities like the rest of us!

The astronaumically rich are a homogeneus minority. When you have the net worth of everybody on this forum and multiply that by 100, you transcend racial bias.

[Spur|n|Austin]

What a joke. The legal system sure has it's flaws more so than not.

[HarlemHeat37]

What an ugly-ass kid, too, tbh..smh..

[baseline bum]

Money and privilege has helped defendants avoid serious prison time for violent crimes before.


http://blogs.democratandchronicle.com/rochistory/files/2013/03/oj11.jpg

[Oh, Gee!!]

Knock out game is worse

[Chingo Bling]

Knock out game is worse

Por eso you cant tell white people chit. They see you doing something then they have to take it up a notch. They see the Native Americans living off the land and having a great time then they go in and kill them all and take the land. They see black people that love to pick cotton... they put theblack people in shains and make them pick the cotton so the white man can make Polo chirts. They see the Mexicanos eating tacos and they go and open up Taco bell and make chitty tacos.
You can't chow white people nothing, they yust fuck it up.

[The Gemini Method]

Sad thing is: Growing up in SoCal allows me to understand the Spanglish in post above...

[Jacob1983]

10 years probation is a steal when you basically commit vehicular manslaughter. That piece of shit should have gotten at least 10 to 25 years.

[Rogue]

money is fucking power and you never see a big name serving any prison time unless he's really dumb as fuck (like Mike Tyson). Most celebrities get away with whatever crime they do imho, like they can avoid tax, rape or gangbang a bitch, molest a kid etc..., and all types of shit, and will always buy themselves freedom, paying the victims big bucks and shut them all up imho.

[The Reckoning]

execute him

[resistanze]

:lol @ "affluenza" defense working in the same state that executes negros for sneezing

[Blake]

so the court has ruled it's the parents fault for his actions. I hope the families of the victims clean said parents out in civil court


...the drunk driving crash that ended the lives of youth pastor, Brian Jennings...

huh. Is Jesus cool with emptying his bank account?

[Trainwreck2100]

huh. Is Jesus cool with emptying his bank account?

That pastor probably had family besides jesus