Affluenza Teen - 720 days in jail

[dextersmith]

Their lives were only worth 180 days? 2 years for a punk who compounded his crimes by trying to escape?

[Alvito]

Um, no. It wasn't first degree murder. Probably like 10x longer than he is getting now though.

He is white and wealthy so that takes death or life in jail off the table for sure. The legal system seriously failed here. The judge and DA that allowed this nonsense to happen should do the remainder of the time this piece of shit isn't going to have to do. On a side note if you are going to argue affluenza and get away with it then the parents should be held responsible.

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Their lives were only worth 180 days? 2 years for a punk who compounded his crimes by trying to escape?

Nevemind the fact he was was so drunk he would have faced that much time just for the extreme dui in most states. 3 times the legal limit is jail time in about half of the country.

[Sky High]

this whole thing has been an abortion of justice, really. I'm curious how hard his mother was hit for helping him flee.

[Heladys]

Let's send him a 50-gallon drum of lube. Strawberry-flavored.

[Deleted]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Couch

Just reading the wiki is pretty bad. His parents are trash and so is he.

[Dug]

Wow, that's it? Texas rarely plays around when it comes to harsh sentences. Dudes family must have some serious connections if they can pull this shit off. Dude deserves to spend the rest of his life behind bars.

[Beazy]

Wow, that's it? Texas rarely plays around when it comes to harsh sentences. Dudes family must have some serious connections if they can pull this shit off. Dude deserves to spend the rest of his life behind bars.

His father is a gov contractor. I'm not sure what services he provides to the feds, but its enough to get his kid off for murder. /shrug
Had he not fucked up and got caught on camera playing beer pong, he would have gotten off 100% free. It infuriates me, TX throws the book at any and ALL drunk driving incidents........ Unless your daddy has federal cock in his mouth.

[Reeve]

Seems like he's getting off easy to me. I mean he fled the country.

[Deleted]

His father is a gov contractor. I'm not sure what services he provides to the feds, but its enough to get his kid off for murder. /shrug
Had he not fucked up and got caught on camera playing beer pong, he would have gotten off 100% free. It infuriates me, TX throws the book at any and ALL drunk driving incidents........ Unless your daddy has federal cock in his mouth.

His dads been mixed up with the law plenty too :

His parents have also each had legal problems, publicized retrospectively in the media following their son's conviction.[9] Fred Couch has been charged with criminal mischief, theft by check, and assault, but the charges were dismissed. On August 19, 2014, he was arrested for impersonating a police officer, allegedly displaying a fake badge during a disturbance call.[11][14] In 2013, Tonya Couch was sentenced to a $500 fine and a six-month community supervision order for reckless driving when she used her vehicle to force another motorist off the road.[9][

[Crissi]

Seems like he's getting off easy to me. I mean he fled the country.

Pretty sure the max they could give him is 180 per victim because of juvenile system plus how original sentence was handled. Blame the original judge for such a shitty sentence, not current for following the law

[Triggered Fridgekin]

Here's to hoping he'll make a habit of being put back in prison to make up for the time he wasn't given.

Will his mother be charged with anything?

[Independent voter]

Was it manslaughter or murder in first degree or what?

If you kill someone while drunk you can get:

Alabama
: 1 to 10 years
Alaska
: 1 to 99 years
Arizona
: 1 to 22 years
Arkansas
: 5 to 20 years
California
: 0 to 10 years
Colorado
: 0 to 24
years
Connecticut
: 1 to 10 years
Delaware
: 1 to 5 years
DC
: 0 to 30 y
ears
Florida
: 0 to 15 years
Georgia
: 0 to 15 years
Hawaii
: 0 to 10 years
Idaho
: 0 to 15 years
Illinois
: 1 to 28 years
Indiana
: 2 to 20 years
Iowa
: 1 to 25 years
Kansas
: 0 to 172 months
Kentucky
: 0 to 10 years
Louisiana
: 3 to 30 years
Maine
: 6 months to 10
years
Maryland
: 0 to 5 years
Massachusetts
: 30 days to 15 years
Michigan
: 0 to 20 years
Minnesota
: 0 to 10 years
Mississippi
: 5 to 25 years
Missouri
: 0 to 15 years
Montana
: 0 to 30 years
Nebraska
: 1 to 50 years
Nevada
: 2 to 25 years
New Hampshire
: 0 to 15
years
New Jersey
: 5 to 10 years
New Mexico
: 0 to 6 years
New York
: 0 to 15 years
North Carolina
: 15 to 480 months
North Dakota
: 0 to life
imprisonment
Ohio
: 1 to 15 years
Oklahoma
: 0 to 1 year
Oregon
: 0 to 20 years
Pennsylvania
: 0 to 10 years
Rhode Islan
d
: 5 to 20 years
South Carolina
: 1 to 25 years
South Dakota
: 0 to 15 years
Tennessee
: 8 to 60 years
Texas
: 2 to 20 years
Utah
: 0 to 15 years
Vermont
: 1 to 15 years
Virginia
: 1 to 20 years
Washington
: 31 to 177 months
West Virginia
: 90 days to 10 years
Wisc
onsin
: 0 to 40 years
Wyoming
: 0 to 20 years

North Dakota don't funk around. Oklahoma is like 1 year.

[Reeve]

Pretty sure the max they could give him is 180 per victim because of juvenile system plus how original sentence was handled. Blame the original judge for such a shitty sentence, not current for following the law

He's no longer a juvenile. Surely he can be charged for skipping out on his probation and then fleeing capture by leaving the country as an adult.

[Crissi]

He's no longer a juvenile. Surely he can be charged for skipping out on his probation and then fleeing capture by leaving the country as an adult.

Don't think you can give an adult sentence over violating a Juvie probation at 18. That's prob why this is so short. Now that he's 19 and apparantly the law considers 19 as when one moves into adult sentencing here, if he violates again he can get adult sentence

[Beazy]

His dads been mixed up with the law plenty too :

His parents have also each had legal problems, publicized retrospectively in the media following their son's conviction.[9] Fred Couch has been charged with criminal mischief, theft by check, and assault, but the charges were dismissed. On August 19, 2014, he was arrested for impersonating a police officer, allegedly displaying a fake badge during a disturbance call.[11][14] In 2013, Tonya Couch was sentenced to a $500 fine and a six-month community supervision order for reckless driving when she used her vehicle to force another motorist off the road.[9][

Wow. A family full of shit stains.

[Damajin]

Hopefully they send him to Federal Pound You In The Ass Prison.

[Stacyrect]

720 days is nothing really. Once you are committed to a sentence and prison, the warden controls your sentence. With but a flick of his pen he could commute his entire sentence. Depending on how he was sentenced for his charges, to be carried consecutively or non consecutively means he could earn jail credits which would lessen his sentence. Violating probation and fleeing from law enforcement are technically non-violent crimes and thus prisoners are able to earn "good time" on those charges. It's usually something along the line of every 10 days you spend in jail you get an extra day off credited to your sentence. By working or doing a job in jail you can also earn additional time off. Once he serves 40% of his time for each charge he will be eligible for parole. Depending on how texas does it, good time may not apply to that 40%.

The article is rather conflicting stating at one point that he got 180 days for each victim and nothing is set in stone, they will reconvene in 2 weeks. Violation of probation is a low class misdemeanor which usually carries a 6 month minimum 2 year maximum sentence. Maximum sentencing for probation violation or fleeing from law enforcement will unlikely be used because he is not a "repeat offender" in that regard. Fleeing from Law Enforcement, depending on the statute, is either a class A misdemeanor or Class D felony. Class D felony's usually carry a 1 year minimum, 2-4 year maxout. So it appears right now, the time he is spending is purely on manslaughter/vehicular homicide charges.

Hopefully the judge will be tough and make his sentence NON-consecutive. If your sentence is consecutive, you gain a day of jail credit for each charge you have vs non consecutive where you do not. If it is non-consecutive, he will have to serve 720 days before he can start serving his sentence for fleeing, and after that time is spent start spend down his violation charge.

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Was it manslaughter or murder in first degree or what?

If you kill someone while drunk you can get

In Norwich Connecticut, we had a guy run over, drag, and kill a brother and sister in front of NFA highschool. He dropped his beer in the car, it was his 5th dui and his license was suspended for a DUI. Guy only got 7 years served little over a year and he is still eligible to get his license back. Shameful

[Piglord]

He is white and wealthy so that takes death or life in jail off the table for sure.

Actually, he didn't get the death penalty because he didn't commit capital murder. He didn't commit murder at all which also took life in prison out.

[Teebone]

*snippity snip*

North Dakota don't funk around. Oklahoma is like 1 year.

http://www.orangecountyduilawyersblo...ing-penalties/

I vote we send his ass to Saudi Arabia.

[Stacyrect]

Hopefully they send him to Federal Pound You In The Ass Prison.

If you were to go to prison, federal prison is where you want to go. Facilities are nicer, swimming pools, tennis courts, etc. The food you get is substantially higher in nutrition and quality then state/privatized prisons who serve food which is deemed unsafe for the normal public to consume. By nice I mean steak, fish, icecream etc. Their are vending machines, soda machines in federal prison as well as a considerably larger commissary list. Prisoners are given actual mattress's and you can actually get a tax payer paid temper-pedic mattress. You can get full cable packages vs state/privatized prisons which offer a very limited selection. In addition, the pay phones in federal prison will allow you to call cellphones, even prepaid, which is something state/privatized prisons do not allow. As for federal pound me in the ass prison gays, trans, are considered heightened security risk prisoners and are generally segregated from the general population. Conjugal visits are allowed in federal prison