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01-27-2016, 12:13am
UPDATE 5: 19 Feb 16 Link to Article (http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/ethan-couch-transferred-to-adult-court-8046543)
Ethan Couch, the affluenza-afflicted drunk driving teen who killed four people in a 2013 Tarrant County crash, is finally getting his day in adult court. Couch's juvenile probation would've expired in April, on his 19th birthday. Friday morning — in front of his father, Fred Couch, and the families of several of his victims — Couch's case was transferred from the juvenile probation to the adult probation system. Now, he faces stiffer consequences for any potential probation violations and the chance that he'll spend up to four months in jail as a condition of entering the adult system.
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UPDATE 4: Link to Article (http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/us/texas-mexico-affluenza-ethan-couch/)
Teenager Ethan Couch, convicted in a 2013 fatal drunken-driving crash, has been transferred from a juvenile to an adult jail, Tarrant County, Texas, Sheriff Dee Anderson said Friday.
A judge hasn't decided if Couch, 18, will be prosecuted in adult or juvenile court for probation violation, Anderson said. A hearing on that question is scheduled for February 19.
A judge decided Friday to move Couch to the adult facility, Anderson said.
"The only change that was made in this order was his housing change," the sheriff said. "We will house him as we do any adult prisoner except that he's under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court."
Anderson said Couch was soft-spoken and voiced no concerns.
"His demeanor and attitude were much the same as when I saw him at the juvenile detention center," Anderson said. He said Couch was being housed in a single cell at the moment.
Couch's attorney, Scott Brown, has said they will not fight a transfer of the case to adult court. Couch could be sentenced to 120 days in jail.
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UPDATE 3: Link to Article (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/affluenza-teen-ethan-couch-set-face-texas-justice-n506831)
... A Texas judge ruled Friday that 18-year-old Ethan Couch should remain in a juvenile detention facility while he awaits a Feb. 19 hearing to determine if his controversial case will be transferred to the adult system.
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It also dashed the hopes of Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson and the group Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD), which had wanted Couch imprisoned in an adult jail. ...
UPDATE 2: Link (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-affluenza-idUSKCN0V621H)
... Couch will be placed in a juvenile detention center. He faces a detention hearing on either Friday or Monday, at which a judge will determine whether to transfer the case from the juvenile system to the adult system, said a spokeswoman for the Tarrant County District Attorney's office. ...
UPDATE: Put on Plane to Texas Article (http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/mexico-putting-affluenza-teen-plane-texas-face-charges-36570742)
Uniformed Mexican immigration agents put "affluenza" teen Ethan Couch aboard a commercial flight to Texas on Thursday morning, ending his month-long stay in Mexico.
Mexico's immigration institute said that Couch, who used an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving accident, was taken to the Mexico City airport from an immigration holding center where he had been held.
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Video released by the immigration institute showed Couch wearing a bluish camouflage-print hoodie, being escorted out of the detention center before dawn, and being escorted onto the plane by four agents.
The agents did not appear to be armed. He had been in immigration custody for 28 days
Original Post: Link to Article (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-affluenza-idUSKCN0V42K8?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&google_editors_picks=true)
The wealthy Texas youth known as the "affluenza" teen after he killed four people in a drunk driving incident in 2013 should be deported to the United States very soon after dropping a legal challenge in Mexico, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
Ethan Couch, 18, and his mother, Tonya, were arrested in Mexico last month following a more than two-week-long manhunt. His mother was deported to the United States last month.
Couch's return is "imminent" now that he has dropped the appeal, said Fernando Benitez, his lawyer in Mexico.
"Basically, it was just Mr Couch's decision, he wants to go back to his home state and face whatever legal consequences result from whatever actions took place over the past few months," he said in the border city of Tijuana.
"It could be a matter of one day, two days, three days," he added, saying Mexican authorities still had to make the necessary transport arrangements.
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Ethan Couch, the affluenza-afflicted drunk driving teen who killed four people in a 2013 Tarrant County crash, is finally getting his day in adult court. Couch's juvenile probation would've expired in April, on his 19th birthday. Friday morning — in front of his father, Fred Couch, and the families of several of his victims — Couch's case was transferred from the juvenile probation to the adult probation system. Now, he faces stiffer consequences for any potential probation violations and the chance that he'll spend up to four months in jail as a condition of entering the adult system.
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UPDATE 4: Link to Article (http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/us/texas-mexico-affluenza-ethan-couch/)
Teenager Ethan Couch, convicted in a 2013 fatal drunken-driving crash, has been transferred from a juvenile to an adult jail, Tarrant County, Texas, Sheriff Dee Anderson said Friday.
A judge hasn't decided if Couch, 18, will be prosecuted in adult or juvenile court for probation violation, Anderson said. A hearing on that question is scheduled for February 19.
A judge decided Friday to move Couch to the adult facility, Anderson said.
"The only change that was made in this order was his housing change," the sheriff said. "We will house him as we do any adult prisoner except that he's under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court."
Anderson said Couch was soft-spoken and voiced no concerns.
"His demeanor and attitude were much the same as when I saw him at the juvenile detention center," Anderson said. He said Couch was being housed in a single cell at the moment.
Couch's attorney, Scott Brown, has said they will not fight a transfer of the case to adult court. Couch could be sentenced to 120 days in jail.
...
UPDATE 3: Link to Article (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/affluenza-teen-ethan-couch-set-face-texas-justice-n506831)
... A Texas judge ruled Friday that 18-year-old Ethan Couch should remain in a juvenile detention facility while he awaits a Feb. 19 hearing to determine if his controversial case will be transferred to the adult system.
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It also dashed the hopes of Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson and the group Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD), which had wanted Couch imprisoned in an adult jail. ...
UPDATE 2: Link (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-affluenza-idUSKCN0V621H)
... Couch will be placed in a juvenile detention center. He faces a detention hearing on either Friday or Monday, at which a judge will determine whether to transfer the case from the juvenile system to the adult system, said a spokeswoman for the Tarrant County District Attorney's office. ...
UPDATE: Put on Plane to Texas Article (http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/mexico-putting-affluenza-teen-plane-texas-face-charges-36570742)
Uniformed Mexican immigration agents put "affluenza" teen Ethan Couch aboard a commercial flight to Texas on Thursday morning, ending his month-long stay in Mexico.
Mexico's immigration institute said that Couch, who used an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving accident, was taken to the Mexico City airport from an immigration holding center where he had been held.
...
Video released by the immigration institute showed Couch wearing a bluish camouflage-print hoodie, being escorted out of the detention center before dawn, and being escorted onto the plane by four agents.
The agents did not appear to be armed. He had been in immigration custody for 28 days
Original Post: Link to Article (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-affluenza-idUSKCN0V42K8?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&google_editors_picks=true)
The wealthy Texas youth known as the "affluenza" teen after he killed four people in a drunk driving incident in 2013 should be deported to the United States very soon after dropping a legal challenge in Mexico, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
Ethan Couch, 18, and his mother, Tonya, were arrested in Mexico last month following a more than two-week-long manhunt. His mother was deported to the United States last month.
Couch's return is "imminent" now that he has dropped the appeal, said Fernando Benitez, his lawyer in Mexico.
"Basically, it was just Mr Couch's decision, he wants to go back to his home state and face whatever legal consequences result from whatever actions took place over the past few months," he said in the border city of Tijuana.
"It could be a matter of one day, two days, three days," he added, saying Mexican authorities still had to make the necessary transport arrangements.
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