What you said is all true but has nothing to do with whether 45 days for her crime is just or common for this judge in this jurisdiction.
And it is neither in my opinion and in the opinion of any other legal expert I have seen on TV from Los Angeles and I’m sure you watch Fox too.
Btw...I don’t think we should have young women especially with famlies in our military anywhere near a war zone. No culture will prevail sending it’s women overseas to fight for it’s men. Women have never been used as such by any military culture in recorded history. It is a grave mistake, my appreciation of their sacrifice notwithstanding.
I like Fox, and their experts are a cut above the ones on the other networks. And I have to admit, I didn’t watch any TV today. But as it pertains to Paris Hilton’s sentence, I wouldn’t be surprised if even Fox’s “experts” couldn’t tell us what the average sentence has been over the past year for a probation violation in an L.A. court.
In many of the comments in this thread, some referring to the news experts, lots of people focus on Paris’ violation of driving with a suspended license. But that’s only part of the prosecutor’s motion to revoke Paris Hilton’s probation. (There is a copy of the motion on the “findlaw” site. It looks genuine). The motion lists several incidents in which Paris violated the terms of her probation. The prosecutors asked for a 45 day sentence, which I imagine they calculated from some form of sentencing guidelines. Then the judge agreed. This doesn’t seem excessive to me for a multiple-count probation violation.
I wish we had a computer link to their sentencing stats.