Paris Hilton released!!! (Justice or Just us?) - Page 3 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

PaulC · #31 06-07-2007, 05:59 PM

She'll be back. She's far too stupid to change her ways. Once the anklewear comes off, I give her 45 days or less to screw the pooch.

John Doe · #32 06-07-2007, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

No the lesson is if you have money you play by different rules...how many poor people would have gotten out so fast...

I personally put as much effort into appointed cases as cases where I get paid lotsa scratch and can cite to many similar circumstances for indigent defendants. Don't learn your lessons from only what you observe in the media.

Designo_E320 · #33 06-07-2007, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by cscmc1

Never thought I'd say this, but I think I might agree with Al Sharpton on this one, from Drudge:

"SHARPTON BLASTS JUSTICE SYSTEM
Thu Jun 07 2007 11:45:47 ET

Reverend Al Sharpton, President of National Action Network, and one of the country's foremost leaders for civil rights, is blasting the justice system for what appears to be favoritism in the early release of Paris Hilton.

"Though I have nothing but empathy for Ms. Hilton whom I have met and appeared with on Saturday Night Live the night I hosted in 2003, this early release gives all of the appearances of economic and racial favoritism that is constantly cited by poor people and people of color. There are any number of cases of people who handle being incarcerated badly and even have health conditions that are not released.

I have served several sentences for civil rights and civil disobedience actions and I even fasted which caused health concerns to prison authorities who paid for a doctor to come see me daily rather than release me. This act smacks of the double standards that many of us raise

Developing..."

Did this BIGOT and the other, what's his face....Jesse jackson (the guy who has a daughter out of wedlock by some young whoe while he was married) ever apologize to the Duke Lacrosse boys?

PaulC · #34 06-07-2007, 06:03 PM

They sent Tawana Brawley as their emissary.

Designo_E320 · #35 06-07-2007, 06:03 PM

She should have gotten all the medical help in JAIL just like every other CRIMINAL!

BENZ-LGB · #36 06-07-2007, 06:03 PM

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!

BENZ-LGB · #37 06-07-2007, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Designo_E320

Did this BIGOT and the other, what's his face....Jesse jackson (the guy who has a daughter out of wedlock by some young whoe while he was married) ever apologize to the Duke Lacrosse boys?

Apples and oranges.

Hatterasguy · #38 06-07-2007, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by John Doe

I personally put as much effort into appointed cases as cases where I get paid lotsa scratch and can cite to many similar circumstances for indigent defendants. Don't learn your lessons from only what you observe in the media.

Oh come on do you think she got the same treatment as some poor person who couldn't even hire an attorny would get? I'm sure she has/had the best lawyers a lot of money can buy, and I am sure some connections were worked.

If you have money, and are famous and well connected the rules are a bit different.

Designo_E320 · #39 06-07-2007, 06:05 PM

She should have gotten a year just like everyone else would have and they should have made an example out of her. If I were the judge who let this skank out, I could never go home and look my son in the eyes.

BENZ-LGB · #40 06-07-2007, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Designo_E320

She should have gotten all the medical help in JAIL just like every other CRIMINAL!

In fact, the L.A. Central Jail has some of the best medical facilities around. She could have, had Lee Baca not been so eager to serve his celebrity masters, been treated at the jail's hospital.

BENZ-LGB · #41 06-07-2007, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Designo_E320

She should have gotten a year just like everyone else would have and they should have made an example out of her. If I were the judge who let this skank out, I could never go home and look my son in the eyes.

It was not the judge. In California judges do not control the jails. The Sheriff, in this case Lee Baca, controls the county's jails.

Two reasons why Baca let her out early:

1. To serve his celebrity masters; and

2. Next year, come budget time, he can go crying to the Board of Supervisors, asking for more taxpayer money for his department and claiming that "...if only he had had more moneyt..." Paris would not have been released early.

It is disgusting.

Designo_E320 · #42 06-07-2007, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by BENZ-LGB

It was not the judge. In California judges do not control the jails. The Sheriff, in this case Lee Baca, controls the county's jails.

Two reasons why Baca let her out early:

1. To serve his celebrity masters; and

2. Next year, come budget time, he can go crying to the Board of Supervisors, asking for more taxpayer money for his department and claiming that "...if only he had had more moneyt..." Paris would not have been released early.

It is disgusting.

I stand corrected so I erased my previous stupid post.