Here is some evidence, however circumstantial, of a backroom deal.
Both the prosecutor AND the judge objected to the early home-release.
Read below:
Sheriff Lee Baca released Hilton to serve 40 days at her Hollywood Hills home after she served three days of what was expected to be a three week stay for violating probation in a reckless driving case.
While Baca's spokesman said the judge who sentenced her had been consulted, he didn't mention that Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer objected to her release. When Sauer sentenced her last month he specifically said she could not do her time at home.
"He did not agree to the terms of release that the sheriff proposed," said Superior Court spokesman Allan Parachini.
You know that there is "funny" business going on when the Sheriff's spoke-hole deliberately lies to the press by saying that the judge was "consulted" while conveniently leaving out the part about the judge being consulted AND objecting to it.
Baca's spoke-hole is just another spinner, trying to make his boss look good and defending the indefensible. Sharpton (as much as it pains me to say it) is right on this one. Black, brown and poor defendants get treated one way, an ugly, skanky rich ***** gets treated differently. The system failed!
L.A. County has long been known as a place where celbrities and near-celebrities are catered and "worshipped" to an extent not seen elsewhere. The infatuation with celebrities extends to the law enforcement community. For example, L.A.D.A. Gil Garcetti transferred the O.J. Simpson case from Santa Monica (where it was properly venued) to downtown L.A. (where the jury make-up would be more sympathetic to O.J.). Sheriff Lee Baca regularly deputizes celebrities (which allows them to carry "toy" badges and real guns). In return the Sheriff gets to hobnob with people who would not otherwise give him the time of day.
Anyone who has watched the movie L.A. Confidential knows how things "were" done in Los Angeles during the 40s. It has not changed much.
I would not be a prosecutor in L.A. even if they doubled my currently crappy civil servant salary!
