[OldSmaj]

Tonya Couch will be charged...and if convicted, faces between two and 10 years in jail.

There will be much hand wringing, speeches will be made, news conferences conducted, pictures flashed on the evening news....and in the end...she will walk away with a slap on the back of the hand.

And society will smile smugly and say" "See, we do punish our royalty."

And all will be well until the next stupid thing that comes along.

[Wolfie]

Critics charged that Boyd had essentially given a free pass to Couch because he was white and wealthy, noting that in 2004, Boyd sentenced Eric Miller a sixteen-year-old from a poor family, to twenty years imprisonment for killing one person while driving drunk.

Fatal crash in 2004 drew different sentence from Tarrant judge