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.
No. Bottom line is we have way too many people in prisons and jails. It is foolishness and a waste. Our legal system has become very little about "punishment" and all about a bureaucracy that must feed itself by growing ever larger.
Violent criminals should be in jail. Well over 50% of our jails and prisons are full of people where society would be much better off...if we would find uses and productive punishments for them instead of simply filling up space and further bloating our legal systems already ridiculous large budgets.
It has nothing to do about being "rich" like you are suggesting. There are a tremendous about of rich, poor and middle-class people in jail that need not be there.....Yet like students in public schools the system makes money off of putting people there....so more people are put there (plain and simple).
“Violent criminals should be in jail.”
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Wrong.
Violent criminals should be used for landfill and then let God sort them out.
I didn't check your home page so I don't know what state you are in, but if you live in a state like Texas where this is a hot issue, come up with some ideas and go to your county primary meetings, if you have good ideas to change the system, they will make it to the state level. Here in Texas we keep getting hit with Federal Mandates to change our Prisons and the state really has no good ideas on how to fix it.
I agree.
who really cares....we have a thread for this idiot?
Hmmmm. I’d spend 45 days in the clink in exchange for her $$$.
What if the guy who hasn't been violent but has boosted over $5k of stuff doesn't want to be rehabilitated?m What are your plans for prevention?
I think you are proposing what we do not know how to do, are not currently able to do, and may never be able to do. What might be often looks and sounds better than what can be.
I think it's excellent that this woman is in the poky. I once asked a general district court judge what his philosophy of sentencing was. He said probably the main thing was to try to see to it that the perp "Gets it." If you lie to this judge and get caught you are doing 10 days. My guess is few lie to him twice. Paris obviously didn't care about what the law in her state was, didn't think it had anything to do with her and thought that she could do as she pleased without regard to the safety of other people on the road. She may not care any more about other people, but she may get a clue that if you stomp on the law enough times, the law may stomp back. I think that's a good thing to learn.
Follow the replies....we’re on the same side.
I don’t that applies in women’s prisons as much as mens.
Edit: I don’t think that applies in women’s prisons as much as mens.
A DUI then TWO suspended license stops and all she gets is 45 days? WTF?
Hi This is Nicole Im with Paris and shes got a gun to her head we are on the 405 north bound
Good post. I was just thinking about the Winkler woman who killed her husband here in Tennessee. She shot him in the back while he slept and she got off scot free cause she claimed he was abusing her with absolutely no proof, just her word, and now she is going to get her kids back and get a judicial diversion, meaning her record will be wiped clean, and the justice system is jailing this silly Paris Hilton for this silliness! Sheesh!
ARE YOU DRIVING A WHITE BRONCO?? DEAR GOD, TELL US, WE HAVE TO KNOW!!!
(Greta-voice off)
maybe she can bunk with Joe hide your daughters Franscis
In order to do so....more people need to be in prisons...
We would be much better off if many of those in prison (for nonviolent reasons) were punished via other ways. Non-inprisonment means.
Go to your local jail, go to your local prisons and see the waste and ridiculously bloated budgets (for salaries, offices, toys, etc) that is simply foolishness......These people should be punished via different ways......They should be made to do true community services, etc.
It’s a sad day when somebody can enhance their reputation and their marketability by DRIVING DRUNK!!!
What a DISGRACE! The best thing that could happen is for Society to pay no attention, and for wee Paris to enjoy 45 days At Her Majesty’s Pleasure in a truly rotten penal institution. Solitary confinement, so there are no ghastly stories for her to sell.
Oursource the job of incarceration to Singapore. They have an idea or two about how to attend to criminals correctly.
In many ways, it is a lucky tragedy that this bimbo did not manage to run over a 3 yr old kid — not fatally, just managing to cause life-changing debilitating injuries. She’d be paying for those for life, squillions of dollars, and no Gossip Mags would want to go anywhere near her.
I’m glad and proud that she’s not my daughter.
*DieHard*
I wonder (hope) she’s treated just like the rest of the prisoners by authorities. Same processing, same lovely accomdations, same food,....no special resort-like accomodations.
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