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.
RESPONSE FROM MADD:
“These latest antics of “Affluenza” teen Ethan Couch and his lawyers are cruel and insulting to the families of the four people he killed and the numerous people he injured while driving drunk. To try to escape justice by turning to the Texas Supreme Court to obtain release from jail for his already lenient 720 day sentence is beyond reprehensible. 720 days in jail was not enough. So anything less is wholly unacceptable. Bottom line, Ethan Couch is a criminal, and this meritless motion can’t change that. MADD urges the Texas Supreme Court to reject this preposterous appeal and tell Ethan Couch to serve his time and pay for his deadly crimes.”
Couch lawyers' petition for writ of mandamus by wfaachannel8 on Scribd
