In a statement, Scott Brown and William Reagan Wynn said that afterwards the 18-year-old’s acknowledged aggregation in Mexico filed paperwork to no best try to block his acknowledgment to the United States, Couch will acknowledgment to Tarrant County in the next few weeks.
“We ahead that Ethan will be present in the 323rd Judicial District Cloister at the accessible audition on the State’s Motion to Transfer,” the account said.
The audition is appointed for Feb. 19.
Couch, who is confined 10 years’ acquittal for killing four humans in a 2013 DWI blast if he was 16, has been in the aegis of Mexican authorities back backward December, if he and his mother, Tonya, were arrested there. Authorities say the two fled the U.S. in aboriginal December if Ethan Couch absent a affair with his acquittal officer.
Earlier this week, Adjudicator Timothy Menikos, the Tarrant County adolescent cloister adjudicator who is administering Couch’s case, was appointed to apprehend arguments from prosecutors about why the alleged “affluenza” teen’s case should be transferred to developed court.
But Menikos adjourned the audition afterwards Couch’s attorneys arguable that Couch wasn’t present in cloister — and should be — and that prosecutors didn’t formally acquaint his mom or dad of the hearing.
Tonya Couch, 48, is chargeless on band afterwards she was answerable with adverse alarm of a avoiding in affiliation with her son’s adventure to Mexico.
Prosecutors wish to alteration Couch’s case to developed cloister by his 19th altogether in April, if the adolescent cloister would lose administration over him and he could be appear from his sentence.
Experts accept said Couch accustomed a allowing book — time in adjust and 10 years acquittal — for the baleful blast because the adolescent arrangement focuses on rehabilitation instead of abuse for offenses.
If his acquittal is transferred to the developed system, prosecutors say, restrictions and penalties would be harsher should he breach its terms.
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