What Is Ethan Couch

The story behind these cases is interesting because it shows a difference in the system when one has money and one doesn’t. Ethan couch was drunk driving a vehicle with the age of 16 not only was he underage drinking but wasn’t supposed to be driving under such conditions. He crash against a crowd of people and took the life of four innocent people. In the other case we have a young man with the same age named, Eric B. Miller, who took ten dollars from his grandfather and used it to buy vodka. Eric miller stole a pickup truck afterwards and crashed into a young father, following his arrest he went before the same judge, state District Judge Jean Boyd who sentenced him twenty years. Miller lived with his grandfather and had a drug addicted mother. …show more content…
He was so rich that it is said that he couldn’t properly identify what it was that he was doing wrong. He was backed up by a phycologist and this helped determined the verdict. Nevertheless it is important to highlight that miller committed a felony that lead up to causing the death of an individual which could have been to much more weight than Ethan’s case. However none of the teenagers were introduced into any kind of alcohol addiction or anything which could of help them in the future since both ended up being repetitive offenders. Maybe if we concentrate in incorporating the importance of driving under the influence in schools we can decrease the number of these