Comments on: It’s Not Right!

By: paris hilton in jail

paris hilton in jail — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:53:13 +0000

paris hilton in jail…

This site is so freeking cool. Pceace !!…

By: Christoph

Christoph — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 02:31:19 +0000

“Can we parse it down to just how is the world safer if some half-baked actress serves 23 days in a county jail as opposed to the same time in a pay jail or 45 days confined in her home [massive mansion]?”

If she serves a sufficient deterrent sentence after violating probation, she may no longer drink and drive.

By: nk

nk — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 02:26:20 +0000

Christoph #16 & 17,

We have the exact same thing in Illinois too. It is the only other state besides California to have no carry law of any kind. So if you want a gun permit you become a “part-time” deputy sheriff or deputy coroner. And it has nothing to do with the Sheriff’s Police keeping the county roads safe or the Corrections Department keeping the people who deserve to be locked up locked up. And “notable community members” is a pretty large group. Who knows? You and I might be in it.

Can we parse it down to just how is the world safer if some half-baked actress serves 23 days in a county jail as opposed to the same time in a
pay jail or 45 days confined in her home?

By: kishnevi

kishnevi — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:49:46 +0000

Re comments 19 and 20–
I was once arrested for driving with a suspended license–suspended because of a DUI–and spent an entire two hours in jail, and when I showed up for the court date it was completely rubbed off because I had gotten a clean license between the arrest and court date. So you see I got off a lot easier than Paris Hilton, and I’m not rich or famous or even well connected. Of course, I didn’t need to explain away all the other stuff Paris Hilton needs to explain away…

By: DRJ

DRJ — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:47:47 +0000

I don’t understand the recurring comments that Paris Hilton’s second set of attorneys were incompetent. Help me understand why you are making these comments because it looks to me like they knew this Judge and decided confrontation wasn’t a good plan.

There are times when the best course of action is to stop fighting and show remorse, especially if one is guilty, and I think this was one of those times.

I hope Paris Hilton is truly remorseful but I’ll be happy with an unrepentant Hilton who decides to never do anything like this again so she can avoid further jail time. Prompt, firm punishment is a deterrent and, despite all the criticism deterrence gets from the PC crowd, it works with many people.

By: kishnevi

kishnevi — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:43:53 +0000

It’s rather telling that the most important thing the LAT could think of when identifying what Paris upstaged was (drumroll please) the VMAs.

It’s actually her parents fault. When you name your child after a hotel, you got to expect a screwed up life will follow.(Although it called have been worse. They could have named her Los Angeles Hilton.)

By: JPL

JPL — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:34:46 +0000

Completely agree with David N. Scott.
Paris Hilton, the clubgoer is a waste of any newspaper’s space. Paris Hilton’s legal odyssey is something else again, and I think worth a few comments from Patterico and the likes of the thoughtful readers here.
Baca’s actions and words at the very least raise eyebrows AND some valid questions about pretty bizarre choices made by the Sheriff’s department. Why all this excessive concern for “this lady”’s delicate mental state? Is he insane? Is one tall, blonde famous-for-nothing celebrity’s meltdown while in county jail(for but a few hours!) something out of the ordinary, worthy of the system snapping to immediate attention?

I really despair at the gaping chasm between a woman like Hilton and what could–or maybe should–happen to one like myself. Not only “poor” people get less than this treatment–middle class ones do, too. And it makes me furious that Baca rationalizes and practically moralizes over this one unremarkable person. Sure, I care about gas prices, outsourcing, our next president, the amnesty bill and Iraq–but this is a situation that is much closer to my everyday reality. I or someone I care about might, god forbid, be in county custody one day. We in L.A. have a more than prurient interest in these things. It’s our justice and punishment system and it sure seems to have a few celebrity glitches.
Baca looks really bad here.

By: David N. Scott

David N. Scott — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:54:48 +0000

I think there’s actually a pretty serious behind all the pointing and laughing. On a macro level, people are getting tired of there being such a huge gap between rich and poor.

Paris is more or less the embodiment of a scofflaw, with her driving on a suspended license when she doesn’t need to and showing up late to court and the outbursts and everything. People don’t like the idea of there being a new noble class in the US that can do all the wrong things and never get in trouble. It isn’t that strange.

Also, with all of this ’sheriff letting her out when the judge said not to’ and ‘tense showdown over whether or not the sherriff would refuse to bring her before the judge’, there’s some interesting internal politics.

Besides aren’t ‘haha, loook at this stupid thing other people are covering’ posts opportunistic at best?

By: Christoph

Christoph — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:03:56 +0000

… continuing

Of course, your link is more relevant than < 10% of Sheriff’s deputies supported Baca for reelection.

By: Christoph

Christoph — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:02:15 +0000

There are no comments yet under the blog post you linked to yet. Anyway, it's an alalysis of how tough the judge is (agreed — and this is a good thing) and how crappy her lawyers are (agreed — obviously a bad thing). It doesn't, at all, talk about the gross celebrity ass-kisser that is Lee Baca. He once tried to set up a:

"unit of celebrity deputies, complete with badges and guns"

Another source:

He was issued a badge and gun as part of the department's new reserve program — set up for celebrities, executives, athletes and other notable community members — after just 64 hours of training rather than the 162 hours state law has required since July 1. According to department sources, the applications were rushed through to beat the new law. Recruits for the new unit — one of Baca's pet projects — were spared the customary polygraph examination and in some instances were assisted in filling out their applications by deputies who went to their homes to complete the paperwork so the recruits would not be inconvenienced, the sources said. "It was a sham," a knowledgeable departmental source said. "It was a rush job with incomplete applications because they were friends of the sheriff or money people. Investigators knew that no matter what... everyone had to pass."

And therein lies your hero. Of course, your link is more relevant than