Maybe I can help you here. One of my kids was picked up for driving on a suspended. Spent the night in jail. Suspended for not paying tickets. Paid the tickets and was cleared. Got picked up for driving while ability impaired. A lesser charge than DUI. His life changed and he and his wife stayed with us for awhile. I drove him to work. My car insurance found he was living here. Insurance went up to $8000 a year because of the DOSL and NOT the DWAI. The DOSL was considered more serious.
I would not leave any weakling kid (under 30) of mine in a large urban lockup over night if I could help it.
I’m white, my kids are white. That is an acute disadvantage in county or city jails...especially down south....very bad things can happen very quickly and can never ever be made right again and the hacks won’t do squat to help...they may even instigate.
I am speaking from personal experience.
I still say 45 days is excessive and I have so far seen not one shred of evidence that such a sentence is handed out routinely in LA county by this judge for same infractions.
Btw...if the worst your kid did was driving on a suspended license then you must have done a great job.
Second offense for DUI here in TN within 2 years of first offense only carries 48 hours.
So Hilton gets 45 days for blowing .08 and then driving on bad license....that sums it up for me. I think it is way excessive and is compared to most jurisdictions and court practice.
My jail knowledge is not from drinking btw....I don’t like drinking or drunks..or irresponsible folks in general