"Afluenza" Defense

Sue22
Sat, 20 Feb 2016 02:45:22 +0000

Frankly, I think this case has little to do with money. This was [is] a kid who was never told “no”. Like all kids, rich or poor, whose parents don’t take the time and energy to teach their kids to delay gratification, consider the impact of their actions on others, and do what they deep down know to be the right thing, he acted in selfish and immoral ways. It’s not all that different from a lower class kid selling drugs, except that at least the drug dealer can plead economic need as justification. The travesty is that the judge in Couch’s case let him get away with a sentence so light that it gave him little motivation to change. I can imagine the kid thinking, “See? I am better and more special than other kids. The fact that my family was smart enough to get a wily attorney and I was such a great actor that the judge let me off shows it. I am a golden boy.”