If she'd been a nobody, said nobody wouldn't likely have had the brass to give the judge a hard time. To violate her probation twice. To flip the bird at the law. If the judge threw the book at her it was because she invited it. How many poor and downtrodden do you know who do that?
You apparently don't know very much about the middle to lower class in our society then and how they interact with the police and the judicial system. It would seem that they get the breaks all the time. The police nor the judicial system thinks that they are going to be reformed nor do they try to "send a message" by whatever they do. A lot of these people will be violating all sorts of laws, they'll be detained for a bit, some stuff confiscated and/or a ticket issued (which will be dismissed later on) and they're on their way again.
What you're referring to, more than anything else is a more self-righteous mode of thinking coming from certain ones in the middle and upper class, who pretend they adhere to the laws (while violating them in so many other ways), and want "show trials" and "mock justice" instead of true justice that works across the board.
Of course, if it were true justice that worked across the board, then it would involve locking up a lot of those same people who cry out for justice.
But, even with some of those in that group, they may end up, at various times, on the wrong side of the law (with either drugs or tickets or other miscellaneous civil and/or legal violations) and they will be most frequently given breaks, with minor fines and/or community service, and then the expunging of the record.
There are so many people that I've come across who keep right on driving, while suspended, with it meaning absolutely nothing to be suspended. And I'm talking about a lot of those same middle to lower class people (and those who are working and/or who have families/kids, etc.). If they get caught, they'll be given some kind of work permit and keep right on driving anyway, with nothing more than a fine.
This -- with Paris Hilton -- was nothing more than some "showpiece" of "pretense of justice" -- because the common person knows that true justice doesn't exist and they wouldn't want true justice to exist (or else it would bite themselves in the butt).
Regards,
Star Traveler
LOL! I guess that doesn’t speak well for the people with whom you associate. I don’t know anyone who drives on a suspended license, uses drugs or otherwise scoffs at the law.