[Vision2020] Paris Hilton Going Back to Jail

[Tom Hansen]

Paul - 

It was stipulated, specifically, in Paris Hilton's sentencing (after she had
violated her probation) that she not only serve the entire 45 days, but also
that she not be released or reassigned to house arrest.  Judging by comments
made by the Deputy Los Angeles County Prosecutor, stipulations such as these
are made very rarely by the sentencing judge.

In other words, it was the intent of the court that Paris Hilton serve her
entire 45 days in an 8 by 12 cell.  When the county sheriff "reassigned"
Hilton to house arrest for undisclosed medical reasons, this not only upset
the judge, but the deputy county prosecutor as well.  

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho 

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-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Paul Rumelhart
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 2:17 PM
To: Moscow Vision 2020
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Paris Hilton Going Back to Jail

I'm happy to see a spoiled celebrity be treated the same as everyone 
else for violating the law, but the following quote bothers me:


"The Los Angeles County jail system is so overcrowded that attorneys and
jail
officials have said it is not unusual for nonviolent offenders like Hilton
to be released after serving as little as 10 percent of their sentences."


If this is true, then I'm not sure I like her getting extra jail time, 
in effect, because she is a celebrity.  However, I'd like to find out 
what the proper procedure for this really is.  The judge seemed to 
expect that papers would be delivered to him so he could amend the 
judgement.  If the Sheriff's Department routinely lets nonviolent 
inmates free early with no such paperwork, then they shouldn't have been 
criticized now just because it's Paris Hilton.

It might be the case, though, that the Judge is just finding out that 
he's been out of the loop on this for years.  In which case I imagine 
the Sheriff's Department will have a lot of explaining to do.

Good gods, I can't believe I'm defending Paris Hilton...

Paul

Tom Hansen wrote:
> >From CNN at www.cnn.com -
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Screaming and crying, Paris Hilton was
> escorted out of a courtroom and back to jail Friday after a judge ruled
that
> she must serve out her entire 45-day sentence behind bars rather than in
her
> Hollywood Hills home.
>
> "It's not right!" shouted the weeping Hilton, who violated her probation
in
> a reckless driving case. "Mom!" she called out to her mother in the
> audience.
>
> Hilton, who was brought to court in handcuffs in a sheriff's car, came
into
> the courtroom disheveled and weeping, hair askew, sans makeup, wearing a
> gray fuzzy sweatshirt over slacks.
>
> She cried throughout the hearing, her body shook constantly and she dabbed
> at her eyes. Several times she turned to her parents, seated behind her in
> the courtroom, and mouthed, "I love you."
>
> Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer was calm but apparently irked by the
> morning's developments. He said he had left the courthouse Thursday night
> having signed an order for Hilton to appear for the hearing. (Timeline:
The
> Hilton case )
>
> When he got in his car early Friday, he said, he heard a radio report that
> he had approved Hilton's participation in the hearing by telephone, but he
> had not.
>
> "I at no time condoned the actions of the sheriff and at no time told him
I
> approved the actions," he said of the decision to release Hilton from jail
> after three days.
>
> "At no time did I approve the defendant being released from custody to her
> home on Kings Road," Sauer said.
>
> Assistant City Attorney Dan F. Jeffries argued that Hilton should be
> returned to jail, and said that was purely the judge's decision to make.
> "Her release after only three days erodes confidence in the judicial
> system," Jeffries said.
>
> Hilton's attorney, Richard Hutton, implored the judge to order a hearing
in
> his chambers at which he would hear testimony about Hilton's medical
> condition before making a decision.
>
> The judge did not respond to that suggestion. (Watch the details of
Hilton's
> release)
>
> Another of her attorneys, Steve Levine, said, "The sheriff has determined
> that because of her medical situation, this (jail) is a dangerous place
for
> her."
>
> "The court's role here is to let the Sheriff's Department run the jail,"
he
> said.
>
> A former district attorney, Robert Philibosian, also represented Hilton.
He
> said that the law supports the sheriff in making an independent decision
on
> her custodial situation.
>
> The judge interrupted several times to say that he had received a call
last
> Wednesday from an undersheriff informing him that Hilton had a medical
> condition and that he would submit papers to the judge to consider. He
said
> the papers never arrived.
>
> Every few minutes, the judge would interrupt proceedings and state the
time
> on the clock and note that the papers still had not arrived.
>
> He also noted that he had heard that a private psychiatrist visited Hilton
> in jail and he wondered if that person played a role in deciding her
medical
> needs.
>
> The frenzy over Hilton's jail status began early Thursday when sheriff's
> officials released Hilton because of an undisclosed medical condition and
> sent her home under house arrest. She had been in jail since late Sunday.
> (Watch Hilton enter jail)
>
> Hilton was fitted with an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet and was
> expected to finish her 45-day sentence for a reckless driving probation
> violation at her four-bedroom, three-bath home.
>
> The decision by Sheriff Lee Baca to move Hilton chafed prosecutors and
Judge
> Sauer, who spelled out during sentencing that Hilton was not allowed to
> serve house detention.
>
> California Attorney General Jerry Brown criticized the Sheriff's
Department
> for letting Hilton out of jail, saying he believed she should serve out
her
> sentence.
>
> "It does hold up the system to ridicule when the powerful and the famous
get
> special treatment," Brown told The Associated Press in an interview before
> testifying at a congressional hearing in Washington.
>
> "I'm sure there's a lot of people who've seen their family members go to
> jail and have various ailments, physical and psychological, that didn't
get
> them released," he said. "I'd say it's time for a course correction."
>
> The Los Angeles County jail system is so overcrowded that attorneys and
jail
> officials have said it is not unusual for nonviolent offenders like Hilton
> to be released after serving as little as 10 percent of their sentences.
>
> Hilton's path to jail began September 7, when she failed a sobriety test
> after police saw her weaving down a street in her Mercedes-Benz on what
she
> said was a late-night run to a hamburger stand.
>
> She pleaded no contest to reckless driving and was sentenced to 36 months'
> probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines.
>
> In the months that followed she was stopped twice by officers who
discovered
> her driving on a suspended license. The second stop landed her in Sauer's
> courtroom, where he sentenced her to jail.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "Uh, how about a 1-strike law. Death doesn't seem too extreme for a
Level-3
> sex offender."
>
> - Dale "Comb-Over" Courtney (August 3, 2005)
>
>
>
>
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