Crime and Punishment
Turns out Paris Hilton is getting special treatment:
The (L.A.) Times analyzed 2 million jail releases and found 1,500 cases since July 2002 that — like Hilton’s — involved defendants who had been arrested for drunk driving and later sentenced to jail after a probation violation or driving without a license.
Had Hilton left jail for good after four days, her stint behind bars would have been similar to those served by 60% of those inmates.
But after a judge sent her back to jail Friday, Hilton’s attorney announced that she would serve the full 23 days. That means that Hilton will end up serving more time than 80% of other people in similar situations.
… If Hilton does serve the 23 days, she will have done about the same amount of time as 4,000 inmates who since 2002 had been charged with assaults, as well as more than 1,800 charged with burglary, more than 2,600 charged with domestic violence and nearly 11,000 charged with drug violations.
Topics: crime, punishment
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 1:48 am Comments (3) on Thursday, June 14, 2007
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June 14th, 2007 at 2:52 am
I think they are all just as special as Paris and ought to be treated as such (and not the other way around).
June 14th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Agreed, Salty. Unfortunately, too many judges don’t think a drunk driver who wipes out a family of five on the highway after his tenth DUI arrest is as serious a threat to the public order as a burglar or a wife beater.
June 14th, 2007 at 11:17 am
And, by the way, before anybody feels too sorry for Paris Hilton, just remember that she was late to every court appearance, and she sauntered in every time with her entourage of paparazzi and a smug, I’m-too-sexy-for-my-designer-clothes smile, and gave some lame excuse about not knowing she had to appear in person. Why wouldn’t the judge’s teeth be on edge? If it had been me, I’d have made her serve the whole 40 days on a road crew.