"Affluenza" as a DUI defense...
 

They should have charged him with murder and dealt with him "Texas Style" :nope: :


http://www.ajc.com/news/news/nationa...-deaths/ncJXL/


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...texas/3999487/


http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/12/...ving-accident/



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I smell a payoff. This is disgusting to say the least.

Sadly, money still speaks louder than everything else in some instances.

shameful.

Especially in court!

Terrible incident but a creative defense and it worked.Also, what good would have been accomplished by sending a teenager to prison? This guy had no intent to kill, he made a mistake and will pay for it, but sending him to prison will do nothing but satisfy the natural urge for revenge, which is one reason the recidivism rate is so high in this country, we focus too much on punishment and revenge, instead of rehabilitation .Sure, it sounds bleeding heart but it makes sense because what are doing and have been, revenge/punishment, has not worked.

Bravo to the attorney for doing his job well:rock:

I guess if money caused this problem maybe taking all of it away from him and his parents via civil suit is the best thing to do.

Four dead and a slap on the wrist. Just what is being paid for?

Bravo

:roll:

Ten years of probation is no slap on the wrist and I am sure if he screws up, he will be violated pretty fast.Living under the thumb of a probation officer for a decade, can not imagine that.I am sure no alcohol is part his probation.I am sure he will, especially once off in college and will likely get caught. I have not lived under probation but heard stories and seen it, I shadowed a probation officer for a week in college, she was tough, esp when ti came to those on felony probation.Not the joke everyone thinks it is.

4 people are dead because of his idiocy.

If it was a kid that age whose parents were making 50k between them and living paycheck to paycheck - do you think that he would have gotten the same outcome?

You can't say he would. Thus - blind lady justice wasn't so blind - therefore the system didn't work.

Equal punishment for equal crime. While the defense may have been "creative" - the outcome is a travesty of justice.

Depends on his lawyer, if they managed to get him a good one and not a public pretender etc, possible. No evidence to suggest Judge was paid off and went easy because kid comes from a well off family. Not a travesty of justice, kid made a stupid, costly mistake and will pay for it with a decade of his life under the thumb of a PO.

At least he has a life still. I feel so sorry for him.

Drunk drivers:nope:

I hope that the deaths he caused haunt him for the rest of his life.

The damage he has caused cannot be repaired but the sentence seems to have been very lenient no matter how tough his probation officers are.