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ffluent drunk driving teen who killed 4 sentenced to probation on 'affluenza' defense
RT.com ^ | 12/12/13

Posted on 12/12/2013 4:22:04 AM PST by Wolfie

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To: DJ Taylor
Things like this happen every day in 3rd World countries where a person can be too wealthy to go to jail.

This sort of corruption makes people that much more inclined to listen to "eat the rich" socialist rhetoric.

41 posted on 12/12/2013 7:31:56 AM PST by kobald
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To: Wolfie
N-E-G-L-E-C-T
Find out what it means to kids

It cuts across all demographics - that's the beauty of neglect.
42 posted on 12/12/2013 7:41:29 AM PST by jobim (.)
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To: yldstrk
what the folk does is parents’ income have to do with his criminal recklessness?

The best justice money can buy.

43 posted on 12/12/2013 7:43:35 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Nifster
Young, rich, stupid, and drunk….

The young part will change over time. I have no faith in him ever not being stupid, not being rich, and not being a drunk.

44 posted on 12/12/2013 7:44:55 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: yldstrk
I’m sure part of the reason the sentence is what it is has to do with the huge amounts all the injured received from the insurance company.

The 'injured' received nothing. They're dead. Four of them. Any one of which was probably a greater loss to society than this slobbering drunk would have been.

45 posted on 12/12/2013 7:55:08 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Wolfie

What language is he ffluent in?


46 posted on 12/12/2013 7:56:56 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Lazamataz

Money talks in all languages.


47 posted on 12/12/2013 8:15:03 AM PST by kobald
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To: DoodleDawg
I’m going to predict two things right now. 1) He isn’t going to stop drinking, and 2) These four are not the only people he will wind up killing.

We can only hope he violates his probation before the latter prediction comes true...

48 posted on 12/12/2013 8:15:10 AM PST by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: showme_the_Glory
I would expect mega civil suits to follow. Lawyers everywhere.

Yup. The only silver lining in this "affluenza" sentence, is that the judge's finding may make it easier to go after the parents in a civil suit. The cure for this kid's "affluenza" just may be bankrupting his parents.

49 posted on 12/12/2013 8:18:18 AM PST by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Wolfie
Seen things like this a few times.

A gentleman that used to be our janitor had his daughter killed by a rich drunk driver. That driver got off, even though he hit the child in the gentleman's front yard.

The gentleman was an undertaker. He visited the young drunk at the hospital, where the nurse left him alone with a scalpel for a few minutes. The drunk had a “Joker” smile as a result, and the gentleman served ten years in prison.

The drunk later killed more people when he pancaked his new sports car into an over pass on I35. The gentleman was released, and now is a prison minister.

We have a legal system, not a justice system.

50 posted on 12/12/2013 8:18:29 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
We can only hope he violates his probation before the latter prediction comes true...

But then what? It doesn't sound like he got sentenced to prison and had the sentence suspended or anything like that so that if he did violate his parole then he'd go to jail. If he violates his parole, what does he get? Longer parole?

51 posted on 12/12/2013 8:29:47 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg
But then what? It doesn't sound like he got sentenced to prison and had the sentence suspended or anything like that so that if he did violate his parole then he'd go to jail. If he violates his parole, what does he get? Longer parole?

I don't know exactly how the procedure works in Texas, but when someone is sentenced to probation and violates that probation, they can be brought before a judge (either the judge who sentenced him or an administrative judge) for a probation revocation hearing. If probation is revoked, the person will then be brought before a judge (this time, typically the same judge who sentenced him) and re-sentenced.

52 posted on 12/12/2013 8:49:15 AM PST by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: DoodleDawg

not at the rate he is going


53 posted on 12/12/2013 1:47:36 PM PST by Nifster
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To: DoodleDawg

no, the deceased are dead. The “injured” are their family members or spouses.

You really don’t know everything despite what you imagine


54 posted on 12/12/2013 4:23:50 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk
You really don’t know everything despite what you imagine.

I doubt I'll get any enlightenment from you.

55 posted on 12/12/2013 4:28:45 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Uncle Chip

Yup!


56 posted on 12/12/2013 10:34:16 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: James C. Bennett

The other day the question came up as to what laws were broken who broke which law.

Do you have a link to that information, I could use?


57 posted on 12/12/2013 10:37:34 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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