Screaming Paris Hilton sent back to jail Today at 12:22 pm Paris Hilton was taken from a courtroom screaming and crying Friday seconds after a judge ordered her returned to jail to serve out her entire 45-day sentence for a parole violation in a reckless driving case. "It's not right!" shouted the weeping Hilton. "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. Her hair was askew and she wore a gray fuzzy sweatshirt over slacks. She wore no makeup and she cried throughout the hearing. She had been brought to court in sheriff's custody today for a court hearing on her early release from jail after back-and-forth decisions on whether she could participate by telephone from her home. Hilton, appearing to be in handcuffs, cried after she was placed into a black-and-white patrol car, which sped away from her home with lights flashing as news helicopters pursued, broadcasting live TV coverage. The car carrying her disappeared into the courthouse's underground parking lot, avoiding a swarm of news media, and her parents then arrived. In the hearing, which began at late morning, a judge was to listen to the city attorney's complaint that the county sheriff did not have the right to reassign her to electronically monitored home detention after only three days in jail for violating probation in a reckless driving case. On Thursday, Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer ordered that Hilton be brought to Friday's hearing. But early Friday a court spokesman announced that she would be allowed to participate by telephone, which is common in misdemeanor cases. Then, in a reversal, the spokesman said the judge had ordered the Sheriff's Department to pick her up and bring her to court. The frenzy 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 for three days. 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 Sauer, who spelled out during sentencing that Hilton was not allowed to serve house detention. Late Thursday, Sauer issued the order for Hilton to return to court after the city attorney filed a petition demanding that Hilton be returned to jail and to show cause why Baca shouldn't be held in contempt of court. Baca does not have to be in court, and it was unclear who would represent the Sheriff's Department. The move also was met with outrage from the sheriff's deputies union, members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, civil rights leaders, defense attorneys and others. "What transpired here is outrageous," county Supervisor Don Knabe told The Associated Press, adding he received more than 400 angry e-mails and hundreds more phone calls from around the country. Hilton's return home "gives the impression of ... celebrity justice being handed out," he said. Baca dismissed the criticism, saying the decision was made based on medical advice. "It isn't wise to keep a person in jail with her problem over an extended period of time and let the problem get worse," Baca told the Los Angeles Times on Thursday. "My message to those who don't like celebrities is that punishing celebrities more than the average American is not justice," Baca said. 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, D.C. "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. In the hours after Hilton's release, it was a madcap scene outside her house in the hills above the Sunset Strip. As word spread that the 26-year-old poster child for bad celebrity behavior was back home, radio helicopter pilots who normally report on traffic conditions were dispatched to hover over her house and describe it to morning commuters. Paparazzi photographers on the ground quickly assembled outside its gates. Shortly before noon, Hilton issued a statement through her attorney. "I want to thank the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and staff of the Century Regional Detention Center for treating me fairly and professionally," she said. "I am going to serve the remaining 40 days of my sentence. I have learned a great deal from this ordeal and hope that others have learned from my mistakes." Hilton's path to jail began Sept. 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. http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/ur...n__ER:69762;_ylt=ArcSxPk33TXCMCIN7dypfF76o9EF
Does anyone know of anyone not famous that had a similiar situation (dui, then stopped twice for suspended liscence?) What happen to them?
do a google search of "violation of dui probation" and you will find many stories of citizens on probation who received far worse sentences than paris hilton... one mother asks about her son who was sentenced 12 months, granted he was a repeat offender and he violated his probation as well... "probation is a privilege, not a right", argued the lawyers who suggested her sentence... read the legal documents here http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/ent/cahilton43007mot.html paris hilton has some sort of sense of entitlement... she was given her terms of probation and she 1. failed to enter a rehab program as per the judges original orders 2. was stopped in January on a suspended license and released. 3. was stopped again weeks later, with a signed document in her glove compartment, verifying that her license was suspended... three strikes and you're out...
This is NOT the typical case in California though. I think there should be severe punishment any dui regardless of who it is. However, in CA that is NOT the case. She is being made an example of and that is not fair. As much as I can't stand the stupid *****, I don't think she was treated the same as everyone else. I can see her serving the 23 days because that is what she was supposed to serve when she entered jail. After the fact, moving it BACK to 45 days served in jail is ridiculous. From the time she was supposed to serve 23 days to now when she will serve 45 days she did nothing wrong (maybe the sheriff did, but she didn't). That is not right. That is a judge trying to get his name in the papers.
I did think the punishment seemed appropriate but I was just curious if it was "normal" She acts like they are sending her to the electric chair or something, do your 45 days in your own cell away from anyone who could hurt you and then come come.
The frenzy began early Thursday when sheriff's officials released Hilton because of an undisclosed medical condition and sent her home under house arrest. Just released. Paris has Prison-Phobia and will require around the clock sedation if she is to remain in prison. My thoughts and prayers will be with Paris, as she battles this life threatening condition.
the sentence was always 45 days with a possibility of release after 23 days based on good behavior... once you are put on probation and you violate the terms, they throw the book at you with an iron fist...they could have sentenced her to jailtime and probation if they wanted to...they could have sentenced her to six months in jail... here are the california dui laws http://www.caduilaw.com/drunk_driving_laws/punishments/first_dui.html
http://video.syndication.msn.com/v/...75-27af-4d94-8574-613c62e447e7&f=txhou&fg=rss this is classic!!!!
that's what i thought. i just finished my dui program and there's probation violators there whom only served 5 days.
haha that was awesome when some random guy was like NOOOOOOOOOOOOO then everyone told him to shut up. Then that cop ran over some nosy ass reporters, good stuff.
There is a huge difference between what the law allows and what is typically done. This is not a typical sentence in CA, its an attention grab.
