Paris Hilton is back in jail where she belongs, all hardened criminals deserve no less.

This is a case of our system working.

The police do not have the right to change sentences for criminals, only a judge does that, its part of our system of checks and balances.

congress makes the laws, at all levels. cops enforce the law, judges apply the law. It a good system,

only in LA (my home town) is the law different some how. If this were you or I, there would be nothing said, we would have done our time and gone on with our lives. But the rich and famous play by a different set of rules or think they should. With all of daddy's money and he could not work out some deal to keep his little princess free from what is now going to take years of therapy to fix and thousands of dollars, the scars she will bare. This poor little spoiled girl of 26 who still lives with mommy and daddy and drives a Bentley, poor thing, is now scared for life,

Oh the injustice of it all.

River

My understanding is that she didn' go back. She went to a different luxury facility. All in all the leg bracelet. would have cost the tax payers less. Understanding the situaton the sherrif was in I think he did the right thing.

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:55 am Paris Hilton is back in jail where she belongs, all hardened criminals deserve no less.

This is a case of our system working.

The police do not have the right to change sentences for criminals, only a judge does that, its part of our system of checks and balances.

congress makes the laws, at all levels. cops enforce the law, judges apply the law. It a good system,

only in LA (my home town) is the law different some how. If this were you or I, there would be nothing said, we would have done our time and gone on with our lives. But the rich and famous play by a different set of rules or think they should. With all of daddy's money and he could not work out some deal to keep his little princess free from what is now going to take years of therapy to fix and thousands of dollars, the scars she will bare. This poor little spoiled girl of 26 who still lives with mommy and daddy and drives a Bentley, poor thing, is now scared for life,

Oh the injustice of it all.

River

River,

If they wanted to keep her from facing the consequences, they have the money to hire the BEST attorneys available and no doubt delayed this until she was old enough to go on social security.

Do you remember how Elvis Presley was 'enabled' to kill himself with booze and meds? At least somebody is making an effort to make this kid responsible. It IS a harder job to do with a rich kid, you are right, but that is not the kid's fault.

KID! Hell, she is 26! By the time I was 26 I had a wife and two children and two jobs. I had no time to DRINK. Rich people are retarded, responsibility-wise, but fucking them over does not help matters.

What, may I inquire, is stuck in your crawl?

Paris apparently did not lead an entirely controlled life or else she would not have videos of herself giving her lover a blow job on the Internet.

By the way, there are no laws against being young and horny, but she DOES need a lesson or two, you are right, but the disagreement is about what form the lesson would take.

I would put her in the hands of Dr. Phil and see if him and his wife could not straighten Paris out.

Putting her in jail with hardened criminals and drug dealers will not CURE her. It will just make her worse and enable even MORE deadbeats to take advantage of her, both monetarily and probably sexually.

That's just plain WRONG...especially since she is trying by pleading guilty...

...do we make her punishment so bad that the NEXT time she brings in a quorum of high-priced attorneys and beats the rap at taxpayer expense?

Dr. Phil couldn't find the floor with his ass. --FLO--

I gotta say I agree with Riverwind on this one - by all means correct me if i'm wrong, but did she not serve only 3 days (!?!) of her original sentence before release?

that would make a mockery of justice for anyone regardless of how much money they have so I think the judge was right to send her back. no arguments. but on the other hand, i'm open to the ideas of therapy of some sort... from what i gather, she didn't kill anyone (and while that doesn't excuse her breaking the law!) I don't think the media furore around it has helped the situation in any way at all...

Just backtracking a little I also agree with what Riverwind is saying about most of the rich and famous appear to live by a different set of rules, or at least think that they do... I rseem to recall Boy George recently having a hissy fit in the british press because he had to do 'community service' for a misdemeanour of some description... whichever side of the ocean you live on mankind seems to have this idea that having money makes you better than your fellow man and the idle rich have yet to learn that IT DON'T!!!

So I would guess the judge's decision had more to do with 'sending a message' that no-one is above the law rather than anything else or a vendetta against Ms Hilton, but i'm not gonna lose any sleep over it - innocent people have been imprisoned for years only to be pardoned and released with very little (if anything) in the way of compensation and this young lady commited a crime for which she is now doing the time, end of story.

would we worry so much about it if it was "Mrs. Jones's daughter from down the street" instead of Paris Hilton......? :-\

Yes, good observation. I hope that is not what the court has done. I hope that Miss Hilton got the sentence the court would have given anyone else.

I may be mistaken, but I thought that because she missed one court date and was late for another the judge added 15 days to the usual sentence. --FLO--

Uncle Flo (imported) wrote: Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:34 am I may be mistaken, but I thought that because she missed one court date and was late for another the judge added 15 days to the usual sentence. --FLO--

That would make sense. Thanks. The policeman's son, who ran into my vehicle while rolling a joint, misses all of his court dates. He has not made one date in six years. For some reason, the little creep has never spent any time in jail. He has bench warrants active while he lives with his father--the active duty policeman.

One would imagine that the policeman's duty would require that he arrest someone he knew had warrants. --FLO--

Uncle Flo (imported) wrote: Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:06 am One would imagine that the policeman's duty would require that he arrest someone he knew had warrants. --FLO--

This is Louisiana. Different rules apply here. The original traffic charges simply disappeared from the court record, though they are on the original accident report. The criminal drug charges are active but will be proscribed by the time the case comes to court. Oddly, the officer was a friend. The prosecutor is also a friend--Louisiana is a strange place.