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Ethan Couch's lawyers argue Tarrant County Judge Wayne Salvant had no authority to sentence him to jail because the case was a civil matter, not a criminal one when it was transferred from the juvenile system.

​​ Ethan Couch, the Texas teen who’s “affluenza” case attracted national attention, can possibly face time in jail now that a judge has decided to try the 18-year-old as an adult. Couch was placed on 10 years probation for killing four people in a DUI crash in 2013. Defense claimed Couch suffered from “affluenza,” meaning […]

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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The latest on Tonya Couch, the mother of a Texas teen who used an “affluenza” defense in a drunken wreck (all times local): 9:20 a.m. The mother of a fugitive teenager known for using an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck has been released from a Texas jail. Tonya […]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The mother of a fugitive teenager known for using an “affluenza” defense in a deadly drunken-driving case agreed Tuesday to be sent from California to Texas to face a charge. Tonya Couch, 48, said very little at an extradition hearing in downtown Los Angeles, where she was flown after being deported […]

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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A judge on Wednesday ordered a Texas teenager who was sentenced to 10 years’ probation in a drunken-driving crash that killed four people to go to a rehabilitation facility paid for by his parents. Judge Jean Boyd again decided to give no jail time for Ethan Couch, defense attorney Reagan […]

Sixteen-year-old Ethan Couch is a rich brat who should be sitting in a Texas prison for driving drunk and killing four pedestrians. But he’s not. Today, Couch is free to walk the streets, perhaps drink alcohol if he feels like it – and maybe  even drive a car again one day. Poor Ethan Couch suffers […]

I guess I should be shocked that a judge and a psychologist in Texas would see a rich white kid as a victim of his privilege before seeing the people he killed as victims of his drunkenness. But I’m not. That’s the thing about privilege; it extends to being able to rewrite rules and to […]

The justice system. We often like to think that in a great democracy like ours, we are all equal under the law no matter what our personal or financial background. The reality is, that while we may have a right to an attorney and a day in court, our judicial system is far from perfect. […]