"Affluenza" sentence vs. sentence for 14 y.o. black teen for participating in a robbery

[dem in texas]

45. Was it a Jury trial for Kuntrell Jackson

If it was, the judge had nothing to do with the verdict and the sentencing, it was the jury's decisions. I was once in a final jury pool in Dallas County for a young man who drove the getaway car in robbery where someone was killed. The prosecution was asking for life in prison for the boy even though he had never been in trouble with the law before. It was back in the late 90's. The boy look so young that I asked how old he was when the crime was committed. The judge said he was not allowed to say. I was immediately kicked out of the jury pool. I think since then, that you must be told their age. When I got home I looked it up in the local newspaper's online archive and found that he was 16 when the crime was committed. I would have thought he needed to serve some time because what he did resulted in the death of an innocent person, but never, never life in prison.

This affluenza rich kid had a prior history of run-ins with the law and he what he did was so bad on so many counts, he needed to serve some time for punishment.

There was another case in this area, in Desoto in Dallas County, several years back, rich kid driving drunk, crashes, kills passenger in his car. He got off with probation, same way, rich family. He continued to get in trouble, drunk driving, drug and gun possession. Then one night he exited Central Expressway in his Porsche and hit a woman whose car had stalled as she driving home from the late shift at work, she had her caution lights blinking. It threw her car over 60 feet and killed her. She had three young children. The kid finally got the jail time he deserved. Just think, if he'd paid for the first death, he might have learned a lesson and maybe that woman would still be alive and those kids would still have their mother.

I wonder if this is what will happen to the "affluenza kid".