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.