Originally posted by: Slikkster
I love you ignorant dolts who say "oh, it's jail, it's not prison". Why don't you try jail for a night or two, yourselves. I would bet the overwhelming majority of you kiddies and would be crying to your mommy, too. But wait, you didn't do anything to go to jail for, right? I mean, stealing that music online and all that warez...hey, everybody does that, right? Nothing like hypocrisy.
I also love the people who argue "she dissed the judge" nonsense. Hey, whatever happened to "dispassionate" justice? Look up the word "dispassionate". Quite frankly, whether a judge is pissed off or not, it should have no bearing on a sentence. Judges are supposed to keep their own emotions OUT of sentencing, period. Of course, they violate their own ethical standards when they don't, but no one seems to care about that.
This judge had all kinds of options to teach Paris a lesson I agree she needed. No celebrity should get special treatment in the eyes of the law. However, no celebrity should get "Let's teach them all a lesson" treatment, either. What's fair is fair. She could have been sentenced to do a great deal of community service of a humiliating kind. The press would have been there to document it all (unlike regular Joes, who could do their dirty community service without fear of appearing on Page Six.)
The final point that makes my argument completely comes from the Sheriff himself, who knows better than anyone involved --the judge, the press, anyone commenting, etc.-- what kinds of sentences are meted out and how they are carried out in LA County. Here are his words:
[Baca said] Friday that Hilton had been ordered to spend an unusually long time behind bars. Under his department's early- release program, Hilton would not have served any time in jail, Baca said. "The special treatment, in a sense, appears to be because of her celebrity status," he said. "She got more time in jail."
Case closed.