FORT WORTH, Texas — An attorney representing the teenager who used an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck said he will not ask for any specific probation terms when an adult court takes up the case.
Following a hearing in which a juvenile-court judge transferred Ethan Couch’s probation to an adult court, Scott Brown said an adult-court judge “will impose the terms he sees fit.”
The 18-year-old could face 120 days in jail, then finish his 10-year probation. A hearing to set his probation terms has not yet been scheduled.
Ethan Couch’s father, Fred Couch, attended the hearing, as did other relatives. Two survivors were also there, along with relatives of people who were killed.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
