Oh, and Paris too, as it turns out:
Celebrity heiress Paris Hilton has been taken screaming from a Los Angeles court after being told to return to jail to serve out her sentence.
The celebrity heiress was ordered to attend the hearing rather than listen to the proceeding by telephone.
Hilton left jail on Thursday, just three days into a 45-day sentence for violating probation on a driving ban.
Her release from the prison, on unspecified medical grounds, had sparked widespread criticism.
Hilton attended court to hear the case for her “reassignment” to house arrest.
She arrived in handcuffs and cried throughout the court session.
The judge said that she would have to serve her full 45-day sentence.
“It’s not right!” she shouted in response, before calling out to her mother in the audience.
Right. Wrong. He’s the man with the bailiff. Off you go.
This blog has two guiding principles: First, we are dedicated as ever to remaining scrupulously non-partisan. Second, we don’t much blog about Paris Hilton. (These are really more guidelines, than rules per se.)
But somehow we couldn’t resist sharing this with all of you.
We’re better now, thanks.
We return you to your regularly scheduled snark.
What’s with the “we”? Did you develop another personality while we weren’t looking? Or is that the Royal “We”?
As for Paris, I hope she winds up serving out all 45 days to which she has been sentenced. And I hope the message gets through to her AND her family…YOU ARE NOT ABOVE THE LAW.
I believe that *you* may have already met my twin brother “Wedge,” missy. Dude’s been trashing my good name all around the globe since at least 1987.
So named because the wedge is, after all, the world’s simplest tool.
Wedge and Lex: We.
Hmmm…not sure about that. With regard to that weekend, my memory is somewhat hazy. I’ve slept since then, you know.
Cap’n,
Funny how you can work the words “Paris Hilton” and “tool” into the same article. Heh.
They’re prolly interchangeable, at least in the correctional system if not socially…..
Respects,
If only she were photographed holding a gun…
Nose
How do you think she’d fair after 3 days in a shipboard brig? After my 3 days I had to get up to the flight deck for a recovery/launch that was underway. A Marine squadron was doing their annual carrier quals. One of them hit the round down. Fire, aluminum flying ever where. Miss Hilton probably wouldn’t have liked that after 3 days with her teddy bear in her pink bunk.
Poor baby, maybe this will be the wake up call she so sorely needs.
I live in Los Angeles and I think Lee Baca is generally respected, but releasing Paris Hilton early was a really tone deaf thing to do. Baca should have known that it would create wide spread outrage and accusations of favoritism. I try to avoid Paris Hilton stories because she’s the most vacuous person in the world, but I just saw a clip of her mother on tv. Apple didn’t fall far from that tree.
Phill, pray tell, what did you do to get 3 days in the brig?
I was just being reassigned from V6 Div to X Div and I was supposed to run the hobby shop for a month. The hobby shop officer in charge was an Ens from a snipe div (M div). He told me to take an inventory on the weekend we were in port in Long Beach. My wife and #1 daughter were living in North Hollywood, (close to LB), so I got a stand-by and went on liberty. Come Monday morning no inventory. Disobedience of a direct order = 3 days in the brig. Before the Captain’s mast, I was told no X div job, back to the flight deck (I drove a huffer). So, that’s my tale of woe. Mast was on a Wednesday at sea. The skipper told me to go home for the following weekend (we were in port) and report to the brig on Monday morning. I was more scared of the Captain than any thing…I was an E3 at the time.
While I hold no simpathies for Hilton or any of her ilk, I do believe that she’s being “overcompensated” by the judge. Yes, she had a DUI charge. It was pled down to a misdemeanor. Had her license suspended. Then drove on a suspended license. Got 45 days in jail. Went in 5 mins before midnight, out 5 mins after midnight on 5 day. Got credit for 5 days. Sheriff let her out early.
First, had she not been a “persona” she likely would not have gotten jail for driving on a suspended license. I’m a builder/contractor now and half my guys drive without licenses. Most due to at least 1 DUI. When they get busted, they get a ticket. Also, most misdemeanor sentences usually serve 10% of time. Sheriff should have either listened to the judges order, serve full sentence, OR, completely release her as is his prerogative. Bu sending her home with a bracelet, he basically amended the judges order. Sure he was none too pleased by that.
I mainly just wish that the newschannels would give it a break. I really don’t care about it. But in my truck, listening to XM FNC. That’s all they had, all day. Forced me to the elevator MUZAK channel
How does the Sheriff have the perogative to completely release her?
Thanks Phil, Must have sucked. I had a Mast myself, no brig time though.
Michelle,
yes, usually due to good behaviour, jail overcrowding etc. Although I do suspect the little “P***ing” match between this judge and Sheriff has been going on for a while.
The Baca received a $1000 campaign contribution from Hilton’s grandfather earlier this week, the maximum allowable donation as per California law. Not that that has anything to do with it or anything.
OK, nobody said it, and it’s Friday… so…call it the sentimental in me, but:
We’ll always have Paris!
Unfortunately.
C’mon Unk, spill!
Nose
Rather than serve time in jail, I propose house arrest for Paris. Ted Nugent’s house, to be precise. For 30 days. I’d pay *money* to see her gut a bison and clean out a stable.
For that matter, given the prevalence of video cameras these days and her other video releases, I expect a prison movie to be released soon.
– Max
I think it’s wrong to send beautiful women to jail. Send them to my house. They’ll be punished.
I also think it’s wrong to buy fat women dinner.
Casca ~ I was going to write something witty and smartassed. But I got nothin.
As for Paris…I’m liking the idea of sending her to Nugent. That would be freakin’ hilarious. Sure beats having to listen to the news about her.
unkawill – Some months after the whole incident I paid the legal Yeoman $20 to pull the page 13 out of my service record. He did that so there is no record there of my spending time in the brig, except, I couldn’t find a Hospital Corpman to take the entry out of my medical record. You need a physical prior to brig time to certify you can perform “hard labor”, and it was. It sucked big time…got my head shaved bald,got pushed around by 18 year old Marines with loaded pistols and shotguns, 3 men to a cell in a 15 man brig the size of your clothes closet. Felt a rifle butt in the ribs a few times for no reason…yeah, it sucked. Here’s the worst part, during GQ we were locked in our cell and the brig turnkey left. If the ship was in trouble…sayonara.
Nose, Late getting back from liberty in Pearl Harbor, 15 restriction/extra duty.
Max, that mental picture you just painted is going to stay with me all day! Too Funny.
“The Simple Life” Hardcore Edition
Not hard at all to use Paris, and tool in the same sentence.
Query for Casca … [loved your suggestion, by the way] is your screen name from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar? “…See what a rent that envious Casca made …?
Marianne Matthews [who read Julius Caesar when she ws 14 and didn’t like the plot}
MM, oh you smart girl. There’s more to the story, but this will suffice:
As they pass by, pluck Casca by the sleeve;
And he will, after his sour fashion, tell you
What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.
Claudio, in fact Paris was arrested for DUI in September 2006 and got a fine. She was arrested again for DUI in January 2007 and had her license suspended. It was the THIRD DUI, and on a suspended license, that got her the jail time.
45 days isn’t enough. 3 DUIs – it’s a miracle she didn’t hurt anyone else. And that’s not because she’s who she is – though that DOES make it more enjoyable.
Amen, Kris. Amen.
Seems to me that the real issue in this story shouldn’t be about Paris at all.
At least after reading this I understand where the sheriff get his power to release people when it comes to the issue of overcrowding. But it still amazes me that once a court has decreed that incarceration is the appropriate sentence as opposed to house arrest, a sheriff can decide otherwise. And to add insult to injury, he appears to have released a lot of violent (re)offenders over the years. At any rate, as I understand it, he can only release people if there is an issue of overcrowding which wasn’t the issue in this case. If I was the judge, I would be pretty ticked too…
I understand. You can’t help it. After all, SD is part of California, despite the best efforts of both interested parties and substantial numbers of your southern neighbors.
Here’s how a celebrity should act:
LeAnn Rimes and Chevrolet