'Affluenza' teen faces Texas hearing on move to adult jail
Source: Reuters
World | Fri Jan 29, 2016 7:07am EST
'Affluenza' teen faces Texas hearing on move to adult jail
FORT WORTH, TEXAS | BY MARICE RICHTER
A hearing is planned on Friday to determine if the Texas teenager derided for an "affluenza" defense for killing four people while driving drunk will be moved from juvenile detention to an adult jail.
Ethan Couch, 18, arrived in Texas on Thursday after being deported from Mexico. Couch is scheduled to appear to before a juvenile court judge, who will decide where he will be detained.
His lawyers may try to have Couch sent to adult prison, where he can apply for bail, an option not available if he remains in juvenile custody. Couch faces a hearing on Feb. 19 to determine if his entire case will move to the adult system.
Couch fled to Mexico in December along with his mother after a video emerged on social media that likely showed the teen in violation of the probation deal reached in juvenile court that kept him out of prison for causing the deadly crash in 2013.
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