'Affluenza' teen's lawyers appeal to Texas Supreme Court
FORT WORTH -- Lawyers for Ethan Couch have appealed to the Texas Supreme Court in their attempt to free the “affluenza” teen from jail.
Attorneys Reagan Wynn and Scott Brown filed a petition for a writ of mandamus Friday, arguing that state District Judge Wayne Salvant did not have the authority last April to send Couch to the Tarrant County Jail for 720 days as a condition of his probation.
Couch, 19, remains in jail.
He was sentenced as a juvenile to 10 years’ probation for killing four people in a drunken driving crash in 2013. Salvant was assigned Couch’s case when it was transferred to adult court when he turned 19.
Wynn and Brown have been fighting Salvant’s ruling for almost a year. Their motion to remove Salvant from the case was denied in September. The 2nd Court of Appeals denied their appeal in February.
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I suspect that he will generate more headlines in the future. After all that has happened in his life, I wonder if he will have finally learned any lessons?
