"Affluenza" as a DUI defense...

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo

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.