missed that book. but can you judge a book by its cover?
Posted on 05/04/2007 4:30:28 PM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A judge sentenced Paris Hilton to 45 days in Los Angeles County jail on Friday for violating her probation in a reckless driving case.
The heiress arrived at court 10 minutes late in the back of a black Cadillac Escalade and swept into the Metropolitan Courthouse with several men in suits, ignoring screams of photographers lining the route into a rear entrance. Her parents, Rick and Kathy Hilton, also came with her.
Wearing a gray jacket and white shirt over black slacks and with a black headband on, she said nothing and appeared serious.
The celebrity case brought an unusual scene to the austere courthouse south of downtown in a commercial area. As if at a red carpet event, dozens of photographers and reporters lined up at the rear entrance. Yellow police tape substituted for velvet ropes.
TV trucks were parked nearby to beam the news worldwide and a helicopter hovered overhead. Extra sheriff's deputies stood guard.
Hilton, 26, pleaded no contest in January to reckless driving stemming from a Sept. 7 arrest in Hollywood. Police said she appeared intoxicated and failed a field sobriety test. She had a blood-alcohol level of .08 percent, the level at which an adult driver is in violation of the law.
She was sentenced to 36 months probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines.
Two other traffic stops and failure to enroll in a mandated alcohol education program, are what landed the socialite back in court.
On Jan. 15, Hilton was pulled over by California Highway Patrol. Officers informed her that she was driving on a suspended license and she signed a document acknowledging that she was not to drive, according to papers filed in Superior Court.
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies stopped Hilton on Feb. 27 and charged her with violating her probation. Police said she was pulled over at about 11 p.m. after authorities saw the car speeding with its headlights off.
Hilton's spokesman, Elliot Mintz, said at the time Hilton wasn't aware her license was suspended. A copy of the document Hilton signed on Jan. 15 was found in the car's glove compartment, court papers say.
Non (deliberately)threatening people do not belong in prison or jail. Put them to work, make them use whatever assets and talents they have for others (community service)...Ahh, but this wouldn't help to create enormous budgets for our legal systems to justify.
When will this country wake-up! Prisons should be for violent criminals. Plain and simple.
If she were illegal she would walk...
missed that book. but can you judge a book by its cover?
ping
Actually, to be honest, it is more news than anything that has
been on the mainstream media TV, at night, for months ... maybe years.
===> Move this to breaking news?
Any way they can fix it so at least if Scooter Libby has to serve time in a cell, he can have her as a cell-mate, as a consolation prize?
She won’t be staying at the Hilton. Get it! Hilton!
I’ll feel safer in the streets now.
Is this significant enough for one of your “Gotta See This” threads?
This judge obviously decided that she needed to learn that breaking the law hurts. If he had put her on house arrest that would have had no real punishing effect on her, she lives in luxury, probation had no effect on her, she violated, fines wouldn't have hurt her, she is filthy rich, what option was left but to make her face the consequences like everyone else in this country.
I agree that the jails and prisons are over flowing in this country, but that is not the fault of judges sending people to jail, you want to blame someone, blame a society that said it's OK to break the law because you're really just a victim (Clinton).
Are you kidding? Her “stock” just doubled. In this freak show of a town, she’s getting publicity that you couldn’t buy with love or money.
Can she dye her hair in prison?
Poor Paris, maybe the judge would remand her to my custody,
so I could minister to her needs.
Rev. Tet68 Church of the Future Tm.
oooo, and what about her blue-eyed-contacts?
FREE PARIS!
I think she costs a lot...rather high maintenance.
Hi Paris, I’m Bertha your cellmate.
You sure got a pretty mouth.
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