richard alpert and boyce watkins, welcome to democracy now! richard alpert, let's start with you.ou lay out what happened in wednesday's hearing? wasis it that affluenza used? he killed four people. came out of the mouth of andrew miller, who was on the anderson cooper clip you just played, and the position was because he had this profoundly dysfunctional family, he was a child of privilege, his parents let him do what he wanted to do, somehow he was not responsible that it was the parents fault, not his fault that the crime occurred, and with the contention that we found to be ludicrous. it was a contention we confronted in the courtroom, we thought we did so effectively, and the judge obviously did not give the sentence we wanted to be given. washought that pen time appropriate for this young man. >> as this defense been used previously? >> i have never heard anyone say that the fact the person comes from privilege or money entitles them to different consequences. i have never heard that before. again, the phrase that was thrown out there from what i have seen after the fact, it