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nicwr2002
Joined: 17 Aug 2011
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 Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 8:19 pm Post subject: Drunk Driver gets off with only probation. |
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http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1544508
Looks like lame excuses aren't just unique to Korea. This kid kills 4 people driving drunk and the defense was that his parents didn't teach him right from wrong. All he got was probation.... |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Miller called the teen a victim of "affluenza," a rich-kid syndrome that led him to believe money solved everything. |
His money just did in fact solve this for him. "Affluenza" isn't a psychological syndrome, it's basic pattern recognition. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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An update to this case: Ethan Couch, ‘Affluenza’ Teenager, Had Last Party Before Fleeing, Officials Say:
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FORT WORTH — Before fleeing to Mexico with his mother to avoid prison, the Texas teenager made famous by the defense that he was too rich and spoiled to take responsibility for killing four people in a drunken-driving accident, had what amounted to a going-away party, law enforcement officials said on Tuesday, hours after the pair were caught.
The teenager, Ethan Couch, 18, and his mother, Tonya Couch, 48, were arrested by the Mexican authorities in the resort city of Puerto Vallarta on Monday evening, less than three weeks after they became fugitives. Officials in both countries said that Mr. Couch, who they said had dyed his hair and beard in an attempt at disguise, would be returned to Texas to face justice, though how long that would take remained unclear.
“We learned through some interviews that what we suspected all along had happened, that they had planned to disappear, that they even had something that was akin to a going-away party before they left town,” Dee Anderson, the Tarrant County sheriff, said at a news conference in Fort Worth. To investigators, he said, the information “meant that what we suspected had happened, that it was carefully planned and timed to get out of the country.”
Mr. Couch was 16 when he killed four pedestrians in a drunken-driving crash near Fort Worth and pleaded guilty to four counts of manslaughter. His case quickly made national headlines twice: When a defense witness testified that he suffered from “affluenza,” too influenced by privilege and his parents’ permissiveness to know right from wrong; and when a judge appeared to accept the argument, and sentenced him to 10 years’ probation, rather than prison.
The sheriff said on Monday that he was not at all surprised that Mr. Couch’s mother had not only helped him flee, but fled with him. It has been clear from the time of the accident, he said, that “there’s just no chance that she will ever think he needs to be punished or held accountable.”
“We have now had an arrest warrant issued for Tonya Couch for hindering apprehension,” he added.
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What was striking about Mr. Couch’s defense was that his lawyers argued that he deserved leniency precisely because of his privileged upbringing.
The defense’s “affluenza” argument drew angry reactions, as did the sentence of probation, which included a prohibition on drinking alcohol, and a requirement that he complete a rehabilitation program. A headline on an article about the case in TheWeek.com read, “Being rich is now a get-out-of-jail-free card.”
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The Cosmic Hum
Joined: 09 May 2003
Location: Sonic Space
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Jean Hudson Boyd, the original judge stepped down from her position after this case.
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| By December, 2013, over thirty thousand persons signed an online petition to remove Boyd from the bench after the Boyd's ruling in the Couch case.[15] A year later, Boyd stepped down from her position officially on December 31, 2014, after serving as judge for 20 years. |
One wonders how much 'Affluenza' she contracted from this case. |
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yodanole
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: La Florida
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| Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2015 11:26 am Post subject: |
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| Judging from the photographs, some of that affluence could have been expended on cosmetic procedures. |
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