"AFFLUENZA" TEEN GETS TWO YEARS IN JAIL

A Texas judge on Wednesday ordered “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch to spend 720 days in jail – nearly two years – as a condition for his continued probation for a 2013 fatal drunken-driving crash. The total amounts to 180 days for each of the four people he killed. However, the judge said he’d give the defense two weeks to make an argument against the order. “Nothing is set in stone, so I might reconsider,” the judge said in a court hearing in the case in Tarrant County, Texas. Couch, a Texas teenager accused of fleeing to Mexico with his mommy after using an “affluenza” defense to avoid prison, will remain in jail for an undetermined number of days while a judge awaits recommendations from prosecutors and defense attorneys.
* Not to sound cynical but doesn’t the judge sound like he’s looking for a payoff here?
* “Uh, I’m inclined to put your client in prison for two years, unless you make me an offer – you know, something in a brown paper bag.”
* “And to anticipate your follow-up question, I prefer tens and twenties in unmarked bills.”
* 180 days for each life he took? Harsh!
* We’ve had TV shows that don’t last that long.
* How come Ethan Couch didn’t get the Chair?
* The judge said nothing is set in stone? Oh, I disagree. The birth and death dates of this guy’s victims are set in stone down at the cemetery.
* The mom still doesn’t get it. She says her kid was raised rich so he should be allowed to serve the two years at a Four Seasons.