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Fort Worth, Texas • A judge Wednesday ordered a Texas teen who used an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck to serve nearly two years in jail, a surprising sentence that far exceeds the several months in jail that prosecutors initially said they would pursue.

Ethan Couch, who was appearing in adult court for the first time after he turned 19 Monday, received 180 days for each of the four deaths in the June 2013 crash.

Initially, state District Judge Wayne Salvant said he would not immediately rule on how much longer Couch, who was already in custody since he was arrested in Mexico last year, would spend in jail. But he reconsidered his ruling after prosecutors convinced him that Couch should be sentenced not to 120 days in jail but to 180 days for each of four counts of intoxication manslaughter.

Each 180-day term will be served consecutively, the judge ordered.

The initial sentence of 10 years of probation that Couch received in juvenile court outraged prosecutors and relatives of the victims, which include one teenager who was paralyzed and uses a wheelchair.

Couch lost control of his family's pickup after he and his friends had played beer pong and drank beer that some of them had stolen from a Wal-Mart. He veered into a crowd of people helping the driver of a disabled vehicle on the side of the road. Authorities later estimated that he was going 70 mph in a 40 mph zone.

Couch was found to have had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit for adult drivers.

Couch ended up in trouble again last year after a cellphone video showed him at what appeared to be a party with alcohol. Drinking alcohol is a violation of Couch's probation. Shortly after the video surfaced, Couch and his mother, Tonya, fled to Mexico.

The two were apprehended in a Mexican resort city in December and sent back to the United States. Couch has been in custody since.

Tonya Couch is charged with hindering the apprehension of a felon for helping Ethan flee to Mexico.