Summary-
In 2013 Ethan Couch was sentenced to 720 days because he was driving drunk, killed 4 people and paralyzed 1. He had a blood alcohol level of 0.24, three times the legal limit in Texas, hours after the crash. This sparked many conversations and a psychologist suggested him being an “affluenza teen” meaning that him growing up with so much money might have disabled him to decipher right from wrong. His sentence made the victim’s families very mad because they felt that he got off easy due to his wealth and that drunk driving homicides still aren’t treated as a heavy crime like they should be.
Analysis-
This article was written by Daniel Victor, an alumnus of Penn State, and a reporter on the Express Team. Personally I feel like he did get a very short sentence and faced very little penance, and that’s not fair.
I would agree that he should've gotten WAY more time, he murdered 4 people, and left one struggling for the rest of their life. it's not fair that money has an effect on people's minds.
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