According to this Judge Napolitano on Fox (as well as about a billion other legal talking heads on the news channels) a poor person would NOT be in jail. Napolitatno keeps saying an ordinary person would have gotten no time at all without priors.
When did I say that was grounds to let her out? I just think it’s distasteful and sadistic to laugh about it, that’s all, especially since reports are coming out from reporters in the courtroom now that she really did appear to be sick.
She wasn’t on parole and she was only cited for violating the terms of her probabtion once.
And that’s sadistic and distateful, is it not?
Probation, not parole, and the legal experts I’m hearing on the news shows seem to disagree with you that most people would have gotten any time for doing the same stuff paris Hilton did.
I said I didn’t feel sorry for her either. That doesn’t mean I can’t think it’s distasteful to take pleasure in it. This woman didn’t kill anybody. People just hate her because she’s richer and hotter than they are.
I was watching this morning when the news guys interviewed the driver of the delivery truck. It was an open truck, so you could see what was on board. There was also something on her website about it yesterday, according to the media guys.
I’m sorry, I can’t tell you which media guys, because I was surfing the news channels trying to find some real news. For all the coverage she’s receiving, you’d think she’d killed a president!
She’s an idiot who thinks she’s above the law, a media whore and waste of space, and I’m told a racist to boot. I thought she deserved jail time for the stupidity of her actions if nothing else. But this is where I get off - celebrating and clamoring for her head on a plate is too much. I’ve tried to ignore this whole thing, which proved impossible, but I feel bad about whatever enjoyment I’ve gotten from this.
January 15: caught driving with a suspended license; signs a document acknowledging that she is not supposed to drive
January 22: pleads no contest to alcohol-related reckless driving (a reduction of her previous DUI charge); sentenced to $1500 fine, 36 months probation and alcohol education class
February 27: ticketed for driving on a suspended license; car is impounded
May 4: claims she didn’t know her license was suspended; copy of document she signed is found in her own glove compartment. Sentenced to 45 days in jail for probation violation.
Here we have a person who signed a document acknowledging the terms of her sentence and broke them anyway. Such a person doesn’t deserve the lenience of a house arrest, in my opinion; she can’t be trusted.
Paris is not being treated worse than anybody. She was being treated much, much better and now she’s getting the hammer laid on her. Poor people who flaut the law as she has done get the hammer too. And everybody is fine with that. But not poor, poor Paris.
Now I see why children whine and cry. It works on a lot of people. It makes people feel sorry for them. Me, it just irritates.
She was only cited once. She got a DUI, then she got warned (not cited) about driving without a license. Then she got CITED for driving without a license.
These are chickenshit violations that nobody else would get more than a couple of days for at most. The judge was grandstanding with this sentence, trying to show how tough he could be on a celebrity.
Just because she’s smoking hot and skinny and rich and famous does not mean she deserves to be treated worse than anybody else.
I have not heard any legal expert on TV say this. I’ve heard them all say that the sheriff overstepped his bounds. I hear them say that 23 days is not excessive. Do you have a cite for your claim?
Cite? People keep saying this, but every legal expert keeps saying otherwise. I’m not buying it. I think people are just ASSUMING that without any real basis.
Just when I thought a a better (but not ideal) justice would be served by having Paris go back to jail, the asshole judge has to swing the pendulum the other way and up her jail time to 45 days. How is any of this Paris’s fault? Sentence the fricking Sheriff to the extra 22 days, but not Paris for christ’s sake.
In her defense, I’ll say that from what I’ve seen, it’s the racism of ignorance, and not the full on kill 'em all variety. On one of the videos of her at a party, she uses several racist slurs, while talking about how she’s “too fine for them.”
Andrew Napolitano was screaming his head off about it on Fox for like an hour. Geraldo (who is a lawyer) was agreeing with him. So was Greta Van Susteren. I saw others saying the same thing on CNN but I don’t know what their names were.
I wasn’t arguing with you. I merely used your post as a springboard to opine that what people perceive about the justice system is a far cry from reality.
It’s really hard to mete out this issue because some people are considering only the crime she was charged with while others are taking her “history” into account. I wish Fox News would do a little research on this rather than show 2 fricking hours of the roof of Paris’s house. By the way, Dio, what the hell is happened since I’ve been gone for a bit. All of a sudden you’re defending the rich and watching Fox news??
they’re not ‘chickenshit’ violations. She was sentenced to probation on January 22 and pulled over on Feb 27th driving (w/o license) and w/o headlights at night. She was a menace on the roads. and, as of May, still hadn’t signed up for the ordered classes.
and I repeat - hauled before the judge once. But for multiple violations of her probation. If you write 50 bad checks and haul you into court charging you w/50 counts of bad checks, do you consider it “one charge”? That’s the same thing here. She was brought before the judge because of the 3 times she violated the terms of her conditional release after the original driving under the influence charge. The first one she was warned, and they made her sign a statement that she understood she wasn’t supposed to drive. The second was for a little over a month later driving again (and in a reckless manner - they could have issued a seperate driving charge for that alone), and again, she’s still failed to sign up for the classes she was ordered to. She’s demonstrated a flagrent disregard for the courts orders, exacerbated it by showing up for her sentencing late.
One cannot continue to act that way and expect leniency from teh court. (and, of course, her well paid attorneys dropped the appeal of her sentence - which should suggest to most reasonable folks, that the sentence itself was not out of line w/the facts of the case).
how much experience do you have w/the CJ system? I’ve got 30 years as of last April.
