It's Not Nearly Enough....
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 12:48 am
But it's better than what he got before...(which was nothing)
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/13/us/texas- ... han-couch/
I'm guessing that the dear lad's attorneys are going to have their work cut out for them convincing the judge to reconsider, given the provisional sentence he's handed down...
Now I'm hoping that Dear Old Mom, who is facing aiding and abetting charges related to their Mexican Holiday, gets to spend at least as long in an orange jumpsuit...
More here:'Affluenza' teen Ethan Couch gets tentative order for 2-year jail term
(CNN)"Affluenza" teen Ethan Couch could get a lot more jail time than his defense attorneys were hoping for.
A Texas judge on Wednesday tentatively ordered Couch to spend 720 days in jail -- nearly two years -- as a condition for his continued probation for a 2013 drunken-driving crash that killed four people and seriously injured two others.
However, District Judge Wayne Salvant said he'd give the defense two weeks to make an argument against the order...
...Wednesday's decision is technically separate from the Mexico arrest, and some sort of jail time was always possible when he turned 19 as a condition for continued probation.
State law mandates that certain young probationers serve a minimum 120 days in jail upon moving from the juvenile system to the adult system, according to prosecutors.
The maximum, Couch's attorney Scott Brown has argued, is 180 days for a transitioning probationer convicted of a second-degree felony like Couch.
So on Wednesday, two days after Couch's 19th birthday, Salvant ordered that Couch serve 720 days, or 180 days for each of the four manslaughter counts.
Couch's attorneys argued Wednesday that the four deaths should be counted as one case, not four. They'll have two weeks to try to convince Salvant.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/13/us/texas- ... han-couch/
I'm guessing that the dear lad's attorneys are going to have their work cut out for them convincing the judge to reconsider, given the provisional sentence he's handed down...
Now I'm hoping that Dear Old Mom, who is facing aiding and abetting charges related to their Mexican Holiday, gets to spend at least as long in an orange jumpsuit...
