"Affluenza" Defense?

[OhioArcher]

So this little scumbag gets off with zero prison time because he thinks he's an "entitled" one...Mommy has money so he doesn't need to follow the rules? BS!!! I say hang the scumbag as a message to all the other "entitled ones"...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/prob ... e-21188282

"Affluenza," the affliction cited by a psychologist to argue that a North Texas teenager from a wealthy family should not be sent to prison for killing four pedestrians while driving drunk, is not a recognized diagnosis and should not be used to justify bad behavior, experts said Thursday.

A judge's decision to give 16-year-old Ethan Couch 10 years of probation for the fatal accident sparked outrage from relatives of those killed and has led to questions about the defense strategy. A psychologist testified in Couch's trial in a Fort Worth juvenile court that as a result of "affluenza," the boy should not receive the maximum 20-year prison sentence prosecutors were seeking.....

"The simple term would be spoiled brat,"

 

[MikeD]

Money and power > the law. That's the way it is; that's the way it's always been and that's the way it will always be. We occasionally see some examples to the contrary but those are just sacrificial lambs to keep us peasants at bay.

All else being equal, if the kid used a gun instead of a car he might of had a different ruling, but still not as harsh and an average Joe.

That is the world in which we live and I know not how to change it.