Judge gives Texas 'affluenza' teen nearly 2 years in jail
Thursday, April 14, 2016
FORT WORTH, Texas -- A judge on Wednesday ordered a Texas teenager who used an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck to serve nearly two years in jail -- a sanction that far exceeds the several months in jail prosecutors initially said they would pursue.
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