This may be the future of 16 year old Ethan Couch. Frightening isn't it?
This drunken Texas teen killed a 15 year old girl and got 10 years probation. Later he killed a single mother of 3 and didn't even get a ticket nor a sobriety test. Then went on to later be arrested for possession of heroin and cocaine with a shotgun found in his trunk.
That 10 years of probation certainly helped rehabilitate that young man didn't it. <---- SARCASM :banghead:
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Judge Jean Boyd, who sentenced 16-year-old Ethan Couch to probation after he killed four people while driving drunk might have done us all a favor by researching a similar history that I've written about previously on this blog. It's the case of Chris Clary, another son of a well-to-do, influential North Texas father who got him off with probation after he killed a teenage girl riding in his car. Clary also was a drunk teenage driver.
In December 1998, Clary killed Stefani Robertson, a 15-year-old DeSoto High School student. Clary was drunk at the time, and Robertson was his passenger. As is often the case with rich kids, dad got a good lawyer. Clary, just like Couch, received 10 years of probation.
Amazingly, just like Couch, this wasn't Clary's first offense. About a year earlier, he had been cited for drunk driving but clearly hadn't learned his lesson. Affluenza apparently has been sweeping the area for decades.
Did probation allow Clary to rehabilitate himself in the way that the judge envisions in Couch's case? Hardly.
In 2009, he was ticketed for driving 90 mph in a 50 mph zone.
Zip ahead to 2011. The "rehabilitated" Clary, driving a Porsche, was driving down the on-ramp of Central Expressway at Yale. I don't know where he was looking at the time, but it wasn't at the road ahead. I don't know the state of his sobriety, nor did police. But he clearly hadn't been paying attention. Had he been, he might have noticed Latonya Lyons, a single mother of three, whose car had broken down beside the on-ramp. She was in her Ford Taurus, emergency lights flashing. Clary's Porsche plowed into her car, hitting it so much force, the Taurus flipped on its top and landed 60 feet away. Lyons was killed.
I don't know if Dad intervened again, but amazingly, police let Clary leave without even writing him a ticket. Perhaps they were feeling the fever and chills and achiness of affluenza. They did not conduct a sobriety test on a two-time killer with an established history of drunk driving.
Zip ahead to 2013. August 10, to be exact. That's the day Chris Clary was arrested for possession of heroin and cocaine. Police found a shotgun in the trunk. Stories have circulated for years about Clary and drugs. They continue to circulate.
Wow, that 10 years of probation certainly turned Clary's life around. I don't doubt Ethan Couch will grow up with an equal level of utter disregard for the sanctity of human life.
