But it's better than what he got before...(which was nothing)
'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.
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...
For all the lives he ended and others he affected, nothing less than life in prison is appropriate. Also, I believe he is a typical repeat offender sort of asshole and therefore continues to be a danger to the public.
Joe Guy wrote:For all the lives he ended and others he affected, nothing less than life in prison is appropriate. Also, I believe he is a typical repeat offender sort of asshole and therefore continues to be a danger to the public.
Agreed, but hopefully we get the most the law will allow.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
20? that's not half enough I'd give him 40 years and make him do it in a box too small to lie down.
20? 40? you're a couple of O-bama liberals. I'd take strips of his skin off and pour vinegar into it and read the bible to him while we do it.
Vinegar? That's it? That's all? You'd tickle him with vinegar in open wounds? Why I'd rather think he'll laugh at you and ask for more. Vinegar! Why I'd put fire ants on his genital organs every day until they swell up and explode and make him learn to recite the en-tire old testament before he gets his next meal.
Fire ants? You mean the regular kind of fire ants we have around here that cain't even scare off a tax collector? Just plain old, plain old ones like that? Shoot, you can't even warm up a real criminal-type with fire ants. Won't confess and repent worth a damn with plain old fire ants. You can start with fire ants, as sort of an eye opener, sure, but you'd better get on with something a little more to the point right smartly. Why I'd put his left foot in a deep fryer and then let wild dogs chew on it a while and then put his right foot in liquid nitrogen and make it into a sort of 'meat popsickle' and give that to the polar bears at the zoo ...
Joe Guy wrote:For all the lives he ended and others he affected, nothing less than life in prison is appropriate. Also, I believe he is a typical repeat offender sort of asshole and therefore continues to be a danger to the public.
Joe, Jim I know you both know who this is/was.
A local bay area celeb who TWICE predicted the end of the world.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
Oh yeah, I remember Harold Camping....
I remember hearing him interviewed by one of the talk show hosts on KGO back in the mid-nineties when he made his first prediction...
I think Camping's last prediction was the world would end on December 15, 2013. It did... for him. However, he made no prediction on when judgement day would happen. Any day now... any day.
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
