"The concept that I did something because I'm rich and spoiled doesn't look like a good causation," Richard Segura, a supervising attorney at the University of Texas at Austin's Criminal Defense Clinic, told the AP. "It doesn't sound like something that would ameliorate the punishment."
Date: Dec 13, 2013
Category: U.S.
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Privileged teen successfully pleads 'affluenza' in drunk driving manslaughter case
It wasnt clear if affluenza has been successfully used as a defense before. Richard Segura, a supervising attorney at the University of Texas at Austins Criminal Defense Clinic, said he had never even heard of the condition.