Episode 81: Ethan Couch, Affluenza Teen

Luxury cars, large homes, extravagant vacations. Money can buy you a lot of things but can it make you sick? One psychologist has suggested that money doesn’t buy happiness,  what it buys is a lack of culpability. Was this a legitimate defense or another example of the favorable treatment of the rich in our justice system. This weeks episode is Ethan Couch, Affluenza Teen. 

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