Posted on 01/03/2020 9:13:23 AM PST by bgill
22-year-old Ethan Couch, once known as the "affluenza" teen has been released from jail after he was accused of violating his probation due to a false positive on a drug test, his attorney told ABC News.
He was arrested Thursday and booked into the Tarrant County Jail shortly after 1 p.m., county officials said, and was held without bail per a judge's order.
When Couch was released from jail in April 2018, after serving time for a probation violation, he had to wear a GPS monitor, adhere to a 9 p.m. curfew and wear a patch that monitored his alcohol and drug use.
The warrant issued Thursday for his arrest claimed the patch detected Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in Couch's system.
"Every time Ethan has gotten an opportunity or been given some kind of a break, or any part of the justice system has decided to give him any level of trust that he’s going to abide by the law, he’s proven he’s not deserving of it."
(Excerpt) Read more at kvue.com ...
Yup. And put family members in there with him.
Give him a couple years of breaking rocks.
A full fledged sociopath in the making. They’ll find him in a ditch somewhere someday. Hopefully before more innocent people get killed or injured by him.
Waste of skin.
Shocking. /s
Forgot! The dude found with his mom in Mexico.
Not just his attorney, but per the linked new article, the DA admits it was a false positive.
So if the criminal justice probation system makes a mistake and re-incarcerates a person wrongly ( => “false positive”) then that’s just fine if we don’t like the offender or his sentence.
good to know.
Please, please send this kid to basic training. Not Navy or Air Force, though.
I hear the Iranians have some openings.
Seriously, this was a false-positive. It’s not justice to let this drop, but it is the law (justice would have been the psycho getting the chop when he killed four people because his parents are rich).
I am in agreement with you.
The sentence he should have received initially is a moot point here.
Since the drug test was a false positive, he did not violate the terms of his probation in this instance. What everyone is saying here is that because he deserved a harsher sentence we can go back and lock him up anyway even if he didn’t violate his probation because he deserves it.
Everyone here who would passively accept being locked up for a false positive raise your hand.
That is referred to as the " Halo Effect", whereby family members become enablers,
and even re-enforcers of the underlying bad behavior.
The "Halo Effect" can cross multiple generations of the same family.
Thinking that is sloppy reporting as this thing is ramping up. Will be waiting to see.
This source says it was positive.
Courts should bring in paddling. 10 hard licks of a paddle in public with his pants down plus jail time might help change his mind.
sure makes a difference!
your post’s source:
POSTED 6:38 AM, JANUARY 3, 2020, BY CNN WIRE
This thread article’s source:
Published: 12:59 PM CST January 2, 2020
Updated: 10:50 AM CST January 3, 2020
kind of think the updated news is that the authorities admitted it was false positive.
Well, who could have foreseen this happening.
“The “Halo Effect” can cross multiple generations of the same family.”
Why did I think “Kennedy” when I read that? Hmmm...
The test was a false positive.
He has already been released.
This article says it was a “weak positive”.
wfaa.com/article/news/crime/ethan-couch-released-from-jail-attorneys-say-drug-test-showed-a-false-positive/287-7d11f485-c8f7-4d5e-b7fb-e21b1ef7cdbe
Couch had a “weak positive” on a monitoring drug patch, said the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office said in a written statement.
The DA said the probation department “did not have confidence in the result.”
The arrest warrant issued Thursday claimed the patch detected Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in Couch’s system. THC is the ingredient in marijuana that causes a high.
Tarrant County authorities are going to conduct additional testing to determine whether the “weak positive” was due to legal CBD oil usage or marijuana. If there is proof that Couch used illegal drugs, the DA’s office will file a motion to revoke his probation.
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