‘Affluenza’ mom Tonya Couch will have to wear ankle monitor — if she makes bail
Source: Reuters
Affluenza mom Tonya Couch will have to wear ankle monitor if she makes bail
Reuters
08 Jan 2016 at 20:37 ET
The mother of the Texas teenager ridiculed for his affluenza defense in the killing of four people while he was driving drunk, did not enter a plea at her arraignment in a Fort Worth court on Friday on a charge of helping her son flee to Mexico after he was suspected of violating probation.
Tonya Couch, 48, could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted of the charge, a third-degree felony, of aiding her son, Ethan, 18, after he was suspected of violating a deal that kept him out of prison.
The court on Monday is expected to consider a motion by her lawyers to reduce the $1 million bond that she is being held on. Her lawyers want $15,000.
The judge said if she is released on bond, she would be required to surrender her passport and wear a monitor on her ankle. Couch, wearing a yellow jail jump suit, told the court she did not have a passport because it was not returned to her when she was deported from Mexico.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/affluenza-mom-tonya-couch-will-have-to-wear-ankle-monitor-if-she-makes-bail/
MADem
(135,425 posts)crapper and the fridge!
I wouldn't put it past her to go on the run again with a stolen passport.
How rich is that awful woman?
840high
(17,196 posts)rpannier
(24,338 posts)That the government of Mexico has it and has not returned it is not the fault of the court
MADem
(135,425 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)Same goes for the judge that turned 'affluenza' into a bona-fide judicial precedent, Jean Boyd.
I lived in the Deep South for several years, and I can tell you that complicity from public officials is the vehicle that keeps the good ole boy network and its myriad corrupt tributaries going. And it'll only get worse and even more brazen as long as Washington looks the other way.
totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)But if she is granted bail chaining her up to a radiator would be inhumane and inexcusable. That's not how we treat people accused of committing crimes who have not been convicted yet.
I can only assume you were serious because I saw no sarcasm tag.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)You're right that's not how we treat charged but not convicted people in this country. While not convicted I would get to stay in a 6' by 8' cell. That is exactly how we treat presumed innocent people in this country.
Give me a choice and I will pick the chain in my own home.
MADem
(135,425 posts)guards is "more humane?" A thin blanket, a scratchy institutional uniform, cold floors, showers only once or twice a week, the crappiest food known to mankind--fats and cardboard, in essence-- is "more humane?"
I'd take a comfortable bed, a color tv, a refrigerator I can raid when I please, a telephone where I can call out to friends or for pizza, and a crapper in my own house and a shower I can access whenever I feel like it infinitely preferable to the conditions in the BEST jail in the country, even if I had to deal with a chain around my ankle to prevent me from hopping in my car and fleeing AGAIN.
Your definition of "inhumane" is weird as hell.
If the choice was a) Stay in jail; b) Be released to your house, chained to a radiator I'd choose B. Hands down. Of course, I wouldn't help a multi-murderer escape to Mexico in the first place, so I probably wouldn't ever have to face that kind of choice.
totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)on bail whereas those who cannot have to remain in jail. I know it's not fair but being poor is never fair. I'm not sure what alternative we can have to the current system. Certainly chaining people up to radiators in their houses is not the answer.
MADem
(135,425 posts)irony on an average day?
If you care so much about "the poor" my tongue-in-cheek proposal should have resonated with you. Instead, I get the
smh!
Clearly, the point I am making here is to deny a WEALTHY person who can easily "make bail" their liberty, while at the same time, not BURDENING the POOR taxpayers for the cost of her maintenance, save the price of a chain to a non-existent TX radiator.
Have a nice day!
totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)As I originally said since I didn't see a sarcasm tag I had to take it at face value.
MADem
(135,425 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,364 posts)Maybe chain her to the radiator of a truck. Let her son drive.
MADem
(135,425 posts)They're everywhere in places where it snows....they hiss, too, when it gets cold!!
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)But when I said this on DU the post got hidden.
MADem
(135,425 posts)been awarded 25 to life.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)I am just baffled that when I expressed mine, my post got hidden.
MADem
(135,425 posts)In DU2, there used to be a greater tolerance for differing opinions, so long as people hewed to a general support of the Democratic Party Platform. Nowadays, you can get a post hidden for anything--or nothing.
It's not a good situation here nowadays. We couldn't even go back to a moderated environment, because the moderators would likely show bias towards their favorite candidate. It's unfortunate.
I got a post hidden for absolutely NO reason recently so I can relate.
sakabatou
(42,174 posts)First, her son get s away with vehicular homicide (iirc) and now his mom tried to flee the country.
treestar
(82,383 posts)in their minds. They just don't understand why they should have to follow rules made by others (society).
I know a family like this. Somewhat different but they think they are full of life and passionate and that their fights are natural and that if someone calls police, it's all very unfair and all the consequences are quite wrong and they complain to high heaven about them. How unfair it is that they have to go to court, or pay a fine! The fight it over and society has not right to complain it is inconvenienced. I call it the criminal mind set. Some people just have it. They may obey the law to a point but where they find it to their interests not too, they expect understanding from the rest of us, the police and the courts.
olddots
(10,237 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)that's how lawbreakers think. They always have their reasons for what they did that society should understand.