What a wonderful court system!
Paris Hilton was released from a Los Angeles County jail early Thursday after only serving a few days of her more than three-week sentence for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.
The 26-year-old hotel heiress checked into the Century Regional Detention Facility in suburban Los Angeles just after 11:30 p.m. Sunday and was expected to serve 23 days.
That was supposed to be 23 days – after time off for good behavior. Must have been some good behavior.
She was sent home early Thursday fitted with an ankle bracelet and must remain confined to her home for 40 days, according to sheriffs spokesman Steve Whitmore.
Wonder what the sentencing judge will have to say – since he specified this was not an alternative he would allow?
Update: the LA County Sheriff’s email address is webemail@lasd.org just in case you feel like commenting directly on this decision.
Update 2: I will repost this tomorrow. Reason? As I noted, the presiding judge specified the ankle bracelet polka was not a legit alternative. He has called Paris Hilton and the sheriff back to his court, Friday, 9AM – to rule on what has been done.
In addition the city attorney has called for the county sheriff who released Hilton to be held in Contempt of Court.
WTF!
A report from TMZ (so take it with lots of salt) says
“She served a total of five days — the normal stay for a violation of this kind.”
http://www.tmz.com/2007/06/07/paris-hilton-free-woman/
Now, assuming that is true, and despite the fact that she’s one of the celebrity characters whom I dislike most strongly, maybe there is some justice that she isn’t getting an extended sentence just so the courts can prove a point. Plus, she’s still under “house arrest” (let’s assume it will be enforced).
Not saying I’m glad she’s out…just saying that just because our hatred isn’t being satisfied doesn’t automatically mean something went wrong.
Assuming the claim from TMZ about standard sentence length is false, I’m sure she found a creative way to buy her freedom that had nothing to do with money.
Jake are you serious? The concept of an ankle bracelet has been around longer than that!
It was first introduced on an episode of Family Guy a couple years ago when it got slapped on Peter. :-/
Cripes. She checked into the hotel – I mean jail – Sunday. The usual 24 hour admissions procedure was cut to an hour. No body cavity search (and not with any hand I would touch, anyway). And she’s back in her crib in a couple hours under 4 days.
Think this would happen for any homey from East LA? Or any geek from LaBrea?
She is out of jail for “Medical Reasons” – those reasons? She wasn’t eating the prison gruel.
maybe she is such an insufferable witch that they just couldn’t take it anymore…..
Jeezalou! She gets credit for 5 days served when she only served 3 full days. They count the half hour on Sunday and the two hours on Thursday as full days?! This whole thing stank from the beginning when her original 45 day sentence was reduced to 23 for “good behaviour”… before she even reported to jail.
And house arrest? That’s like punishing your kid by sending him to his room where all his toys, XBOX, computer, etc are. Some punishment.
Her TV show “The Simple Life” didn’t quite prepare her for how simple life could be in the pokey. She probably just can’t thrive away from her native habitat and the constant attention of the paparazzi.
Lack of pampering makes her physically ill.
I like her.
Paris Hilton for President!!!! (just kidding…) 😉
She probably had panic attacks and uncontrollable diarrhea from her confinement.
This is so fucked up, it makes me ashamed to be an American.
Prolly since she didn’t have to undergo the body cavity search (wtf?), she had some blow stashed in her bum, it ran out after a few days, and then the withdrawal required that they give her a medical release once the pink elephants got too much to ignore.
This is just sick. If 3.xx days really WERE “a normal stay for a violation of this kind”, why didn’t the judge just sentence her to 3.xx days in the first place, have her serve all of it, and be done with it? In PA, if you’re caught driving with a suspended license (ESPECIALLY one suspended for DUI), it’s 90 days, no matter who you are.
We’ll always have Paris
unfortunately
J/P=?
Paris didn’t create herself, our society did.
#12 – This is so fucked up, it makes me ashamed to be an American.
It took this to make you ashamed? Hell, I’ve been ashamed since Inauguration Day back in 2001.
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I don’t cafe about the celebrity angle here. I care that we don’t take DUI seriously in this country.
American Justice.
>>It took this to make you ashamed? Hell, I’ve been ashamed
>>since Inauguration Day back in 2001.
You’re right, OhForTheLoveOf. Mea culpa. That was TRULY a day that will live on in infamy. I guess this latest blow was just so trivially stargazingly Hollywood, it triggered a new burst of shame. I mean, stealing an election is at least a major undertaking. Letting a slutty bimbo out of prison after a couple of days because she “cries” is just an indicator that the End Times must be near. Good grief. Send her the fuck back. I don’t even understand that “signed to indicate she knew she shouldn’t drive” nonsense. If I got pulled over driving with a suspended license, nobody would ask me to sign anything. They’d be taking my fingerprints.
Dvorak BS Meter = 10!
11. Warmer, that was a funny mental picture. But seriously, what will all that flatulence do to the environment?
I don’t understand why people who HAVE money get breaks. To be distinguished from people who GIVE money. – – – -oops!—-
Just waiting for the story on who paid who how much.
OFTLO said, “I don’t cafe about the celebrity angle here.”
I love it when you talk
dirtyweird.Ok – – its money, indirectly.
More surfing turns up series of short pieces that Paris’s psychiatrist has submitted affidavits that she is too emotionally fragile to deal with a trial or jail. The court winks at this ploy/delay/money move thus supporting a whole industry of paid enablers.
With this evidence, when will “bullshit” be called, or conversely a negligence claim against for failure to involuntary commitmnet of Paris to a psych facility?
The parents are so proud.====Edit, actually its only the court involved in the trial delay. In the present case, it is LAX Jail that is in on the game. I thought jailers were on a power trip sticking it to “everyone.” As this case shows this is not true, kinda makes any charge of misconduct on the jailers seem at least “possible?”
Good to see that the American justice system is still working the way it was intended. 😉
Of course it was for Medical reasons. None of the other inmates wanted to catch anything from her.
Paris’s fans and handlers must have desended on the digg site. Many of the anti Paris comments have been dugg down. Unless Digg user really like her.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html
If you have the money, the above doesn’t apply to you.
Any of you haters-of-hot-women-who-won’t-look-at-you ever think that maybe the “health problem” involved her being assaulted, beaten or raped? or at least she was told she was going to be assaulted? And no, that is not part of prison life, not matter how much some of you think it’s funny to get AIDs or hepatitis in jail for driving under a suspended license. I know I come off as nasty here, but I am just responding to true nastiness. She did nothing to be put in harm’s way. And no, I agree that there are hundreds of thousands of people put in jail for much less who are also assaulted. They shouldn’t be in that position either. Put up some damned cameras — if they can watch us at red lights they can damned well monitor for rapes in prison. There’s no excuse but that we as a society approve of jail attacks.
That’s because no one can stand being next to her when she’s not f**king.
We’re ashamed that a girl got out of jail for driving while under a suspended license, but we feel no shame for thousands of people being tortured by Virginia farm boys around the world in our name. Or the hundred thousand plus we slaughtered taking over Iraq. Proportion, people. Feel shame were it matters.
ohfortheloveof MARK THIS DAY DOWN WE AGREE ON SOMETHING
You are so correct about not taking drunk driving seriously enough
#29, I feel shame for the eduction system that produced the likes of you and yours. Any more 1960s soviet propoganda that you want to tell us?