The recent sentence of probation for a Fort Worth Teenager for killing four people in DWI crash outraged the victims of that tragedy. The defense offered by Ethan Couch’s lawyer was a new term, “affluenza”. They argued that Couch was too spoiled by his rich parents to know right from wrong. It’s a laughable defense but one that the Texas Juvenile Judge Jean Boyd took hook, line and sinker.

To get to this point, the defense lawyers were successful in having Couch tried as juvenile. Juveniles are charged all the time as adults. Boyd showed she was not crime on crime when she sentenced a poor black kid to 10 years for causing the death of a man when he punched him and the victim hit his head on the pavement. So why did the judge buy into this absurd defense?

She hasn’t offered any public explanations, but she did announce that she isn’t seeking another term. On CNN, Defense Attorney Mark Geragos stated that this judge is a well respected judge, not some lune. Well, actions speak loud in this case and the fact that Judge Boyd has decided not seek another term is troubling and only adds to the angst felt by the victims in this case. That this could happened in the Lone Star, law and order state of Texas is proof that this kind of lunacy can occur anywhere.