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.
This has got to be staged right? Someone’s playing a funny?
No, #62 it just goes to show you how fucked up our justice system
is.
Here is a rant from a blogger before the Dukies were let go:
http://my.opera.com/khankrumthebulgar/blog/
As one who has written about criminal justice issues for many years, I have run into case after case in which prosecutors and the police have lied and conducted entire cases built upon webs of lies. While I have written in the past about the 10-part series, “Win at All Costs” by Bill Moushey of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1998, it is worth repeating his opening statements:
Hundreds of times during the past 10 years, federal agents and prosecutors have pursued justice by breaking the law.
They lied, hid evidence, distorted facts, engaged in cover-ups, paid for perjury and set up innocent people in a relentless effort to win indictments, guilty pleas and convictions, a two-year Post-Gazette investigation found.
Rarely were these federal officials punished for their misconduct. Rarely did they admit their conduct was wrong.
New laws and court rulings that encourage federal law enforcement officers to press the boundaries of their power while providing few safeguards against abuse fueled their actions.
Victims of this misconduct sometimes lost their jobs, assets and even families. Some remain in prison because prosecutors withheld favorable evidence or allowed fabricated testimony. Some criminals walk free as a reward for conspiring with the government in its effort to deny others their rights.
In other words, the federal agencies are full of people like Michael B. Nifong, people who are in positions of trust, yet use their positions to press false charges and obtain wrongful convictions. Rarely is anyone in the “justice” system punished for such misconduct, and there are no guarantees that Nifong will receive anything more than a slap on the wrist from the North Carolina State Bar – if he receives even that.
To put it another way, we are dealing with a system that is so full of sociopaths that the system itself becomes sociopathic in nature. In order to have even the opportunity to receive justice in this case, the families of the three Duke lacrosse players have had to shell out more than a million dollars apiece and the estimated legal costs are going to run to five million dollars or more.
That a fundamentally dishonest person like Michael B. Nifong can use the “justice” system to financially bleed other people is an outrage. Yet, as anyone who has dealt with sociopaths knows, sociopaths are incapable of shame and incapable of understanding why anyone could be outraged by their behavior.
Likewise, we hear judges, prosecutors, and those in “law enforcement” express anger that anyone ever could question the ethics, morality, and, yes, patriotism of those who hold legal authority over us. Thus, the State of North Carolina continues to hold three innocent young men in legal limbo, and people there who are in authority are shocked, SHOCKED that anyone would complain or see anything wrong in what the state has done.
To paraphrase Leon Trotsky, “Nifong is the state; the state is Nifong.” Indeed, until (or if) the North Carolina authorities drop these charges and go after the real criminals in this case – Nifong, the Durham police, and others who pushed the charges – then the only proper thing for them to do is to hang pictures of Nifong on their office walls, since on this day, he is the very face of the “justice system” of The State of North Carolina.”
I repeat the last thing you should expect in our criminal courts is justice. It is the exception and not the rule.
Well it seems while she’s been in the slammer she forgot to pay the utility bill
It makes me mad to see this kind of thing. Why do people idolise these idiots? Why does society put them on a pedestal?
#63, jz, thanks for the comments. I couldn’t agree more, and for anyone who has ever been through or is going through the “justice system”, good luck and I hope you have the finest legal representation available. You’ll need that and a boatload of dollars, too.
Oh, did I forgot to mention OJ and Robert Blake? My bad.
#64 – It makes me mad to see this kind of thing. Why do people idolize these idiots? Why does society put them on a pedestal?
The 14 year old daughter of a “friend” (nudge nudge, wink wink) thinks the reality show she was on was funny and likes her “music” CD…
She does not know where she came from, how her fortune was amassed, anything about her personal life or character, or that she was convicted of drunk driving… She’s like most people at any age. She see’s the shiny entertainment nuggets… handsome heartthrobs, bikini clad babes, money, cars, low brow entertainment products… but doesn’t read newspapers or news websites or watch news or talk about news.
She has no idea what all the fuss is about concerning Hilton (or Iraq, or immigration, or education, etc., etc.,) and when she hears people speak ill of Hilton she simply says, “they’re just jealous.” (which is almost as stupid a retort as “makes more money than you do” which people say to me when I mention that I don’t like Jimmy Buffet).
So… that’s why. Why did past generations idolize the Beatles or Annette Funicello or Vera Lynn?
Her mom isn’t all that much brighter. I have never been with a woman who has less than a Master’s degree or who didn’t have similar politics, aesthetics, or tastes as I do, and that takes some degree patience on my part. On the other hand, I’ve never been with a woman who has so much money. That and great tits has inspired me to “sell out”.
Why do such blissfully ignorant, lazy and shallow people have so much more money than I do? One of life’s great mysteries I suppose.
I’m sticking with her for a little while. Who knows… In a couple of months maybe I’ll be posting about how much I love my SUV and how we ought to just execute every Iraqi we round up and how we should put Paris Hilton’s face on the dollar.
I don’t know, but maybe a guy like me could rule in the coming idiocracy 🙂
Oh just fuck me in the ass with a garden spade…
http://tinyurl.com/2w539v
WTF…WHAT R WE COMING TO….I MEAN ALOT OF PEOPLE CRITIZES MEXICO BECAUSE U CAN USUALLY BUT OFF PEOPLE AND GET OFF EASILY BUT I GUESS THAT NOW WERE THE SAME. IN A WAY IT IS ALSO THE FANS FAULT BECAUSE THEY IDOLIZE HER TO THE POINT THAT THEY KNOW THAT SHE DID WRONG AND THEY STILL ASK FOR HER FREEDOM! I HEARD IN AN INTERVIEW SHE WANTED TO GET TREATED LIKE EVERYONE ELSE…BUT INSTEAD SHE GOT THE SPECIAL TREATMENT. THEY SHOULD OF LET HER IN JAIL SO THAT SHE COULD OF LEARNED A LESSON!!! MEDICAL PROBLEMS TO BE IN JAIL BUT FINE TO BE DOING SEX TAPES ……YEA WHATEVER!!!!
#66, OFTLO, I don’t know, but maybe a guy like me could rule in the coming idiocracy.
Are you a member already? Enjoy it while you can, sounds like the wrong head is doing the thinking (wouldn’t be the first time in history). I’ll not even comment on money and big hooters supplanting a family. But, hey, that’s just me, been there and done that. We usually agree, just not this time. Have fun while it lasts, and if you’re lucky maybe it’ll be for life! That would be great!
OFTLO – What? You don’t like Jimmy Buffet? There’s no hope for you.
But the garden spade line redeemed you. LOL
#68 – Please stop shouting.
#69 – The value of family and lifelong relationships is largely oversold. I’m 40. I raised my kid. He rocks. I’m done. The new motto of this American like is “I gots to git mine.” I’m just doing the patriotic thing and exaggerating the reality to make a point. (You usually get that…)
#70 – Whatever… Jimmy Buffet is, I’m sure, a nice guy, and I know he runs those themed dining places pretty well… But there are only so many songs about being a drunken bum I can listen to before I get bored.
Besides, no one over 35 is making culturally significant music at the moment.
Paris Hilton sent back to jail.
#72 – Thanks Hopper… Did you click on my link? Jeez!
#51,,,Fusion….No Fusion, I’m not the idiot. This poor excuse for a woman IS guaranteed her protective custody. It’s a fact of life in L.A. County jail system to protect those who would be targets in general population. Unlike those of us who are not infamous, she will be protected from the minute she walks in to the minute she walks out, and then some. Unlike the other prisioners in **special needs** cells, she won’t even have a cellmate.
She is far more special than any of us….a good proportion of DUI arrests spend more time in county jail waiting to see a judge for bail than she spent, up to yesterday, in custody after sentancing.
Yet….there’s catbeller screaming about her being assulted…..sorry Fusion, but as far as I’m concerned, WE have been assulted, not this pampered bitch.
I agree, assaults take place in jails and prisons….and it’s a bad thing, being in prison for any offense isn’t for the faint hearted. But it has nothing to do with this woman, not even the same planet.
As to his remarks about our soldiers, while a very small group of them has committed crimes in Iraq, I don’t consider our troops terrorists. I thank them for being willing to go and defend this country and me and people like catbeller and you, in a war that many of them probably felt was right in the beginning, but probably don’t support anymore.
I’m past argueing about why we went to Iraq and Afganistan, the reasons turned out to be bogus, now we should be figuring out how to get out without leaving hundreds of thousands or possibly millions more dead and maimed in our wake. But that DOES NOT make our troops terrorists.
#74, joshua
There you go again. Inventing crap and accusing others of having said it. Neither catbeller nor myself accused ANY American soldier of being a terrorist. Yet, if someone raises the issue of torture, you Right Wing Nut Neo-con Evangelical Conservative Republican Fox News enthusiasts start spouting we called the American soldiers terrorists. How can someone use the torture of innocent civilians to justify a jailed American being assaulted? So what did you do to support our troops? Wear American Flag undies? You sir are effen sick.
She is not guaranteed “Protective Custody”. I have no idea where you got that idea from. Is this the crap Fox News is spouting? Or did Nancy Grace whine about that on her program? She could be put into general population tomorrow if the prison superintendent so decides.
I see you still didn’t read either of catbeller’s posts. Nowhere did he say she had been assaulted. Yet, right after you accuse catbeller of screaming she was assaulted, you admit crap like that happens in jails. Well geeeee, isn’t that exactly what catbeller said?
Home Schooling at its best.