DA tries again to put drunken teen behind bars
Source: Seattle PI - Associated Press
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) North Texas prosecutors are trying again to put a teen behind bars who was sentenced last week to 10 years' probation after acknowledging he killed four pedestrians while driving drunk.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram (http://bit.ly/JEXZpn ) reports Tarrant County District Attorney Joe Shannon is asking a juvenile judge to put 16-year-old Ethan Couch behind bars on two cases of intoxication assault that he says are still pending before the court.
Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/texas/article/DA-tries-again-to-put-drunken-teen-behind-bars-5072957.php
Star-Telegram.com
Tarrant prosecutors try again to put drunken teen driver behind bars
FORT WORTH A 16-year-old sentenced last week to 10 years probation after acknowledging that he killed four people while driving drunk could still serve time if a last-ditch effort by prosecutors is successful.
Tarrant County District Attorney Joe Shannon is asking a juvenile judge to put the driver, Ethan Couch, behind bars on two counts of intoxication assault that he says are still pending before the court.
Two teens riding in the back of Couchs pickup on the night of the fatal crash suffered critical injuries. One, Sergio Molina, is paralyzed and can communicate only by blinking, according to testimony in last weeks trial.
During his recent trial, the 16-year-old admitted his guilt in four cases of intoxication manslaughter and two cases of intoxication assault, Shannon said in an email to the Star-Telegram. There has been no verdict formally entered in the two intoxication assault cases. Every case deserves a verdict.
The district attorneys office is asking the court to incarcerate the teen on the two intoxication assault cases.
Link - http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/12/17/v-print/5426823/tarrant-prosecutors-try-again.html?rh=1
avebury
(10,952 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,232 posts)Club Med. This judge should be removed from the bench ASAP!
rocktivity
(44,575 posts)I mean, don't THEY offer anti-alcohol counseling?
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,699 posts)doc03
(35,324 posts)Where are the adults? Why haven't we seen or heard about his parents? How rich are they? Do they have some kind of political pull?
KT2000
(20,572 posts)They have several charges against them - mom tried to run someone off the road and dad wrote bad checks. The boy was given a house where he was living alone. This according to Daily Mail.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)He probably wouldn't do a thing the parents asked. The parents of this kid are responsible for his behavior and should be in jail for neglect and the kid should be taken away from them for good...no contact. OK ...I don't really believe that, but it felt good to say it and think it.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)Why would dad have to write bad checks, unless the well-funded wife cut off his allowance?
LisaL
(44,973 posts)Father has some sort of company that brings in millions each year.
nikto
(3,284 posts)GOP Family Values, fully-realized.
Diego_Native 2012
(65 posts)randr
(12,409 posts)for producing such a callous idiot.