--- title: Affluenza Teen Ordered to Spend Nearly 2 Years in Jail description: "You're not getting out of jail today," the judge said canonical: https://time.com/4292326/affluenza-teen-jail-sentence/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-13T16:21:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T14:22:13.000Z article:section: U.S. og:title: 'Affluenza' Teen Ordered to Spend Nearly 2 Years in Jail og:description: "You're not getting out of jail today," the judge said og:url: https://time.com/4292326/affluenza-teen-jail-sentence/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf25d94c63cd98578/69888ef0cf40a801d4c42ca9/ethan-couch-affluenza.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Ethan Couch og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Affluenza' Teen Ordered to Spend Nearly 2 Years in Jail twitter:description: "You're not getting out of jail today," the judge said twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf25d94c63cd98578/69888ef0cf40a801d4c42ca9/ethan-couch-affluenza.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'Affluenza' Teen Ordered to Spend Nearly 2 Years in Jail by [Elizabeth Chuck / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Elizabeth Chuck / NBC News Updated: Dec 13, 2023 2:22 PM CUTPublished: Apr 13, 2016 4:21 PM CUT  Ethan Couch is led by sheriff deputies to a waiting SUV after a juvenile court for a hearing in Fort Worth, Texas on Feb. 19, 2016. Ethan Couch is led by sheriff deputies to a waiting SUV after a juvenile court for a hearing in Fort Worth, Texas on Feb. 19, 2016.LM Otero—AP by [Elizabeth Chuck / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Elizabeth Chuck / NBC News Updated: Dec 13, 2023 2:22 PM CUTPublished: Apr 13, 2016 4:21 PM CUT A judge on Wednesday imposed four consecutive 180-day jail terms on infamous “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch. “You’re not getting out of jail today,” State District Judge Wayne Salvant told the Texas teen, sentencing him to 720 days — one 180-day sentence for each of the four victims he killed in a June 2013 drunk-driving accident. Couch, who turned 19 on Monday, received 10 years’ probation in juvenile court following the car crash. He was accused of violating the terms of his juvenile probation after a video surfaced online last December that appeared to show him at a party where alcohol was served. He and his… [_Read the rest of this story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-affluenza-teen-ethan-couch-you-re-not-getting-out-n555366?cid=sm%5Ftw "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4292326/affluenza-teen-jail-sentence/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4292326/affluenza-teen-jail-sentence/"},"headline":"'Affluenza' Teen Ordered to Spend Nearly 2 Years in Jail","datePublished":"2016-04-13T16:21:01.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T14:22:13.000Z","description":"\"You're not getting out of jail today\"","url":"https://time.com/4292326/affluenza-teen-jail-sentence/","keywords":["Courts","Crime","dui","drinking"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf25d94c63cd98578/69888ef0cf40a801d4c42ca9/ethan-couch-affluenza.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Elizabeth Chuck / NBC News"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf25d94c63cd98578/69888ef0cf40a801d4c42ca9/ethan-couch-affluenza.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Ethan Couch","caption":"Ethan Couch is led by sheriff deputies to a waiting SUV after a juvenile court for a hearing in Fort Worth, Texas on Feb. 19, 2016.","creditText":"LM Otero—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/courts/","name":"Courts"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4292326/affluenza-teen-jail-sentence/","name":"'Affluenza' Teen Ordered to Spend Nearly 2 Years in Jail"}}]}] ```