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One Way to Take Care of Business
While Paris might be getting her first full night of sleep in her West Hollywood digs, she won't be sleeping in tomorrow morning after gorging on cupcakes, as she has been ordered to go back to court tomorrow at 9 a.m. and face the judge who put her in the clink in the first place.
Apparently, even though the Sheriffs department, can alter the terms of a prison sentence (as they did when they cut her 45-day sentence in half for "good behavior" even before she first stepped into the facility), the city attorney and the judge are not at all happy with the fact that Sheriff Lee Baca went against the judges orders (photo after the jump) and is now allowing the heiress to wear an electronic monitoring device.
"The problem here is that there is a medical issue and it isn't wise to keep a person in jail with her problem over an extended period of time and let the problem get worse," Baca explained to the LA Times. "In my opinion, justice is being served by the decision to have her serve her time at home. She would still be in the county jail if it were not for the medical advice."
While others are coughing bullshit, Al Sharpton is saying it's the new version of White Flight enabled by white power. Hit it, Drudge:
Though I have nothing but empathy for Ms. Hilton whom I have met and appeared with on Saturday Night Live the night I hosted in 2003, this early release gives all of the appearances of economic and racial favoritism that is constantly cited by poor people and people of color. There are any number of cases of people who handle being incarcerated badly and even have health conditions that are not released.Baca is being rumored to possibly being charged with contempt. Maybe he knows someone in the Sheriff's Department who will get him released after three days too.I have served several sentences for civil rights and civil disobedience actions and I even fasted which caused health concerns to prison authorities who paid for a doctor to come see me daily rather than release me. This act smacks of the double standards that many of us raise. - Al Sharpton as quoted in the Drudge Report
photo of Paris at the MTV Movie Awards by Joey Maloney for LAist
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So when are they releasing Baca and Paris' sex tape?
I applaud in a way the fact that Ms. Hilton was released. Doubt she will learn a lesson after her 40 day ankle bracelet episode though.
But Al Sharpton should spend his time on more important things in his (Fantasy World). He causes too many controversies, and belongs in a different kind of prison. "His ill conceived opinion he is the leader of all African/Americans"
"While others are coughing bullshit.."
Hell, no: we're screaming it at the top of our lungs!
The issue of race aside, what really irks me is our justice system's nigh-immoral veneration of privilege.
Really the only thing keeping Paris out of jail right now are the very same people that are supposed to put her ass in the clink in the first place... So, what's stopping them?
You think that flagrant law-breakers like Paris and Lindsey are getting away with their antics because the LAPD fears a Million-Tween March?!?
If you drink and drive jail is the only place for you.
Instead she got probation, alcohol education classes (which she didn't attend) and a $1,500 fine.
A $1,500 fine to Paris Hilton is absurd, fines are meant to 'hurt'.
In Finland in 2004 Jussi Salonoja, 27, heir to his family's sausage business, was caught driving 80 km per hour (50 miles per hour) in a 40 kph (25 mph) zone. He was fined $217,000, Finnish traffic fines vary according to the offender's income.
If Americans want to keep criminals off their streets, they have to pay for more prisons. If not the drunk drivers, pickpockets and shoplifters are going to have a field day!
slight correction Tomaso,
if Americans want to keep criminals off their streets, we have to call off this so-called war on drugs which are filling the prisons with non-violent "criminals" who would not be criminals if weed was legal.
we dont need more jails, we need more people who put people in danger in jail. a dude smoking or selling weed is no danger to society, no matter what the GOP propaganda says.