Posted on 06/09/2007 8:40:24 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Paris Hilton has not eaten or slept since arriving at the medical ward of a Los Angeles jail and is being given psychoactive drugs, celebrity Web site TMZ.com reported on Saturday, citing law enforcement sources.
The socialite and hotel heiress was ordered back to jail on Friday after a judge overruled a sheriff's decision to place her under house arrest for psychological problems after she had spent three days of an expected three-week term behind bars.
The 26-year-old "has been crying a lot, praying" and is "extremely withdrawn," TMZ reported.
Hilton was visited by her psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Sophy, for more than two hours on Saturday morning. She was being held in a room by herself with a glass door that is guarded at all times, the report said.
Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County sheriff, declined to comment on the report. "Anything to do with her medical stuff I can't confirm or deny," he said.
A spokesman for Hilton could not immediately be reached for comment.
Hilton's early release by Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca sparked national outrage and accusations of preferential treatment because of her celebrity status.
On Saturday, however, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer's order to return her to custody was sparking controversy, with television pundits and others debating whether he had overstepped his bounds in overruling Baca.
Baca has defended his decision, saying that Hilton was under an early-release program established to ease jail overcrowding and that she was serving more time than other inmates in the same low-level category.
Hilton was sentenced to 45 days in jail last month for violating probation in a drunken-driving case by driving on a suspended license.
On Friday she trembled and cried quietly throughout the hearing, then broke into loud sobs when the judge ordered her back into custody.
"Mom, Mom. It's not right," she wailed as she was led out of the courtroom. Her mother, Kathy Hilton, also sobbed.
so-o-o-o-o-o
sorry!
after jail, send her back to kindergarten and spank her.
My thoughts exactly. Quiet time for a little soul searching is long overdue in her life.
This is so sad. The kid is spoiled by her parents: her mother was quoted as saying that Paris brought it on herself.
No. The parents spoiled her and allowed her act like a pig, then when thing go bad, turn on her. And Paris pays the price.
Someday that girl will know that her parents let her down.
There was notably NO OUTRAGE mentioned in the press when Sydney Burglar got a slap on the wrist for stealing and destroying government documents pertinant to the 9-11 and on a larger scale Clinton efforts to combat Osama bin Laden fueled terrorism.
Whether Paris got "off lightly" with house arrest or solitary confinement isn't ANY sort of news. But the way the media is covering this story IS news.
There was outrage about Sydney's light sentence but you wouldn't find any mention of the outrage in the MSM.
The shadow government protects their own.
The media had much more sympathy for Cindy Sheehan who was as wreckless and out of control (cozying up to communist dictators and supporting terrorists through a propaganda campaign).
It could be worse. Have you seen how many posts there are on the latest Anna-Nichole thread?
Why doesn’t she just suck it up and serve the 45 days. She’ll be out by the end of July. Then she can resume doing whatever vacuous celebrities do.
It really is hilarious!
Was the tune taken from a real Paris Hilton “song”? I blessedly wouldn’t know.
Now transfer her to a real mental hospital where she would share her room with others and use the common bathroom, too.
That was funny!!
“I would hope going forward that the public and the media will focus on more important things like the men and women serving our country in Iraq and other places around the world.”
I am surprised that Paris would say this.
“after jail, send her back to kindergarten and spank her.”
Uh oh!!
It must not be easy going into Gitmo West for any length of time. Courage, Paris.
> The media had much more sympathy for Cindy Sheehan who was as wreckless and out of control (cozying up to communist dictators and supporting terrorists through a propaganda campaign).
Cindy Sheehan at least gave something back to America. She gave her son, Casey.
Paris instead gave America and its laws The Fingers.
Sheehan has an excuse. Hilton does not.
>> “I would hope going forward that the public and the media will focus on more important things like the men and women serving our country in Iraq and other places around the world.”
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> I am surprised that Paris would say this.
You are surprised with good reason, mate. She probably didn’t: her publicists probably instructed her to say it. I’d bet she has had minders scouring the Internet and forums like FR looking for ways to buy back sympathy. One theme that has come across these past few days is that The Lads serving in Iraq are voluntarily enduring worse conditions than she is, and that she should be grateful for that.
(There are several threads on FR yesterday where this thought came out loud and clear).
She is saying what she thinks she has to say to regain her sense of dignity. The ugly truth is that she cares not a flying fung@@ for the heroes serving in Iraq. Paris cares not: she is the Feral Barbie. Entirely self-absorbed, which is why she has no guilty conscience about driving while drunk, endangering your family. Paris cares not! Her behavior is indicative of a sociopath by the classic definition.
Paris does not give a bloody blast about anything other than Paris. This may be news to some folk.
It is disgraceful that she would even dare to attach herself by implication and insinuation to the men and women in Harm’s Way in the WOT. As if she ever cared.
Spare no tears for Paris. And heed not her Crocodile Tears: they mean nothing.
With 50 Million... if I was the judge I’d be worried she would hire a political consultant and run a RECALL against the judge...
Touche! So few reports are accurate, but remanding her to jail after the Sheriff remanded her to home detention is eighth amendment stuff. Ask the man who owns one.
I am sick of hearing about innacurate reports. I have no envy of her or her riches. She can live her life any way she wants, but she should be treated like anyone else, per Ann Coulter. It's called equal protection under the law.
To know if she's being treated like anyone else requires familiarizing yourself with the system and the details of this case.
First, she never pled to a DUI. At exactly .08 most da's are more than happy to plead it down to a reckless driving charge, and that's what happened. Got it? No DUI. (And before the prohibition group MADD got hold of it, the law was .10. I don't drink and I routinely call 911 when I see drivers weaving, so don't get me wrong. But I think MADD's focus on roadblocks and lower and lower BAC's isn't the answer. And with fatalities inceasing, whatever we're doing isn't working).
But I digress. Paris was then pulled over and made to sign an acknowlegemt that her license was suspended. Do you know why they do that? It's not to give anyone a break, it's because the DMV is too cheap to send out certified letters, and if you get a notice in the mail of a suspension, which was Paris' case, if for some reason you don't get it, or in her case her people drop the ball and don't alert her, then unless you acknowledge to the officer who asked her "Did you know your license was suspended?" no ticket is given for driving with a suspended license. If a person has their license suspended in open court this doesn't apply.
So all she had to do was reapply for the license, it wasn't that it was suspended as part of a court order. Does everyone get that? This is why the punishment is way excessive. Ann Coulter gets it. And she has the courage to buck public opinion on any issue and speak her mind.
(I once had a similar experience, in part. I was stopped on a traffic violation and the officer told me my license was suspended. I was unaware of it. He impounded my vehicle. I called the commander and 2 hours later they met me at the private impound yard and cut the towing company a CHP check for around $250. They apologized to me and admitted they were wrong. Yet my license was suspended).
So Paris hadn't signed up for whatever program she promised to complete. I have not read anywhere she was in violation for that, but still had time to complete it, but this is one detail I am not positive of.
Granted, at the point she signed an acknowlegement her license was suspended, she was a complete idiot for not getting it taken care of, and getting cited again, because all that was required was to reapply for reinstatement, which was automatic. But it still doesn't justify punishment no one else gets. Nor has anyone in the media come up with a similar sentence given by Judge Sauer.
In Monterey county recently a judge Valesquez was removed from the bench by the Commission on Judicial Performance. If you like Judge Sauer, kraut you'd love Velasquez. He would double a defendant's sentence if they so much as said a word after he pronounced it. If you were in his court for squealing your car tires, if you didn't answer that you did it because it was fun (He would ask "You did it because it was fun, right?), he'd give you a much stiffer sentence.
Sheriff Baca stood publicly and announced the sentence was unfair and excessive. He's the head law enforcement officer and makes decisions about custody issues all day long.
And even though there was all that "No bracelet" or whatever, hears news: Sheriffs all over the country routinely do whatever they want despite those kinds of judges notes. The 2 am wasn't some grand conspiracy, that's normally when those types of releases occur.
So Paris, if you learn three things from this it should be this: Use a limo at all times, double stretch for privacy, the same as every member of our SCOTUS use, 2) never ever be late to court, and 3) call your attorney regarding every single legal decision except for signing a promise to appear citation.
And BTW, when you join free republic when you grow up, remember who's your daddy here.
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