In a matter of days, Ethan Couch could be back on American soil. The Mexican lawyer representing the 18-year-Texan dubbed the "affluenza teen" by the media confirms to People his client has rescinded his appeal against deportation - a move that a judge ratified Tuesday morning. After spending several weeks on the run with his mother Tonya, Couch was apprehended by police late last month in the Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta. Couch was 16 when he killed four pedestrians in a 2013 drunk driving accident. The teen was spared jail time and sentenced to probation after his defense attorney successfully...
- 1/27/2016
- by Chris Harris, @chrisharrisment
- PEOPLE.com
In a matter of days, Ethan Couch could be back on American soil. The Mexican lawyer representing the 18-year-Texan dubbed the "affluenza teen" by the media confirms to People his client has rescinded his appeal against deportation - a move that a judge ratified Tuesday morning. After spending several weeks on the run with his mother Tonya, Couch was apprehended by police late last month in the Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta. Couch was 16 when he killed four pedestrians in a 2013 drunk driving accident. The teen was spared jail time and sentenced to probation after his defense attorney successfully...
- 1/27/2016
- by Chris Harris, @chrisharrisment
- PEOPLE.com
The high-powered Mexican lawyer hired to represent so-called "affluenza" teen Ethan Couch has suggested his human rights are being violated by Mexican authorities who want to kick him out of the country instead of going through the traditional channels for extradition. The 18-year-old, who pleaded guilty to a drunk-driving crash that killed four people in 2013, won a stay that temporarily prevents him from being deported following his apprehension in Peurto Vallarta last week. "Maybe the Mexican authorities are going along with a plan to get him back quickly, but they're disguising an extradition as a deportation," prominent Mexican attorney Fernando Benitez...
- 1/5/2016
- by Andrea Park, @scandreapark
- PEOPLE.com
The high-powered Mexican lawyer hired to represent so-called "affluenza" teen Ethan Couch has suggested his human rights are being violated by Mexican authorities who want to kick him out of the country instead of going through the traditional channels for extradition. The 18-year-old, who pleaded guilty to a drunk-driving crash that killed four people in 2013, won a stay that temporarily prevents him from being deported following his apprehension in Peurto Vallarta last week. "Maybe the Mexican authorities are going along with a plan to get him back quickly, but they're disguising an extradition as a deportation," prominent Mexican attorney Fernando Benitez...
- 1/5/2016
- by Andrea Park, @scandreapark
- PEOPLE.com
A prominent Mexican attorney who says he specializes in "helping foreigners in trouble" has been hired to handle the attempted deportation of 18-year-old Texan Ethan Couch, the so-called "affluenza" teen apprehended last week in the resort town of Puerto Vallarta. Couch was 16 when he drove drunk and killed four pedestrians in 2013; he was spared jail time and sentenced to probation after his defense attorney argued that he suffered from "affluenza" because of his wealthy upbringing. Fernando Benítez, Couch's lawyer, tells People he's yet to meet with his client, but plans to do so first thing Tuesday. "At that time, I...
- 1/4/2016
- by Chris Harris, @chrisharrisment
- PEOPLE.com
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