1. The LA County Sheriff pissed off the judge, big time, by letting her out after serving only 3 days of a 23-45 day sentence. Pissed off judges sometimes react the way this one did. The Sheriff is lucky he's not in the pokey himself. You should have heard Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Phoenix, AZ talk about this, and you would have been informed. Maybe Fox will have it in their archives. It's worth looking up.
2. The Hilton-defending pundits are wrong, every one of them. There's plenty of precedent to jug someone who got arrested for DUII, missed two court appearances, drove while suspended and failed probation. As a Court Services Deputy, I saw that happen in my little court system maybe a dozen times. It is NOT about the "usual" sentence for the original offenses, this jail term is about PROBATION VIOLATION. DO YOU HEAR THAT, ALL YOU SCREAMING FUCKTARD TALKING HEADS? 45 days for probation violation is NOT unusual, in fact, may be light. In my old courthouse, where jail overcrowding is as bad if not worse than LA county, the average sentence for Probation Violation is 60 days minimum.
3. If Greta Van Whinerin (of Fox News, I refuse to link her) is a reliable witness, Paris Hilton was "tweaking" in the courtroom. The most likely cause of this is NOT her impending re-incarceration, but the fact that she probably did a healthy dose of methamphetamine as soon as she got home to start her "house arrest". The judge is probably an old hand with tweakers, and immediately recognized the behavior, and the probable drug ingestion which caused it is probably the REAL reason that he re-jugged her, but the "official" reason would be that she declined to appear when summoned. There was also a little party there at her house, the decorations of which could be seen in the paparazzi shots of her house and driveway. In other words, she totally flouted the bond of trust she got as a probationer, and for that alone she deserves the sentence. Prediction: look for her to get even more time if a drug test comes out positive for meth.
4. The "medical issue". OK, big deal, she doesn't like jail. She's used to having an "entourage" of similarly-airheaded sycophants at her beck and call to relieve her boredom, and the same sycophants fawning over her ALL the time. She was totally unable to handle being alone in her cell 23 hours a day. The reason she is in that cell, instead of the general jail population where she would be able to talk to people 24/7 if she wanted is that she's so "special", a situation of her own making. So she got the Special Management Unit (which used to be known as the "hole").
5. OK, "conspiracy" freaks, here it is: I think one of her producers got to the Sheriff and convinced him (or the responsible Jail Commander) to release her early. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if a palm or two got crossed.
6. Props to Al Sharpton. For once, he is right to rant about her early release, especially if she sniveled her way out of jail as he thinks she did. Of course, I don't buy the race card he played with his statement, but he is spot-on about the fact that almost no one else could have sniveled their way out of jail like she did.
Bottom line: why she was released:
- She was a PITA to have in the jail, with the staff having to change security ops and answer a bazillion phone calls about her. The Sheriff was desperate to get her out of his system.
- She actually put herself into a medical emergency. I tend to doubt this, not because it can't be done, it can (by persons trained in the metaphysical arts), and she would have been carted off to the hospital if she was having a real problem. Also, the Special Management Unit is equipped and trained to handle flaky prisoners like her, so this should have been no big deal for them.
- Palms were crossed.
I give #1 a 65% possibility, #2 a 5% and #3 a 30% chance.
Prediction: How much time will she do?
That will depend on whether they do a drug test and if it's positive. If she just did meth this morning, she will be loaded on it for at least 3 days, which is plenty of time to have a drug test done. Lawyer Geragos won't be able to stop this drug test. If the test comes back hot, look for her to get at least an additional 30 days (for doing drugs while on house arrest). If she didn't do drugs early this morning, and her test is clear, she will do at least a week, probably all of the original 23 day minimum, and maybe the whole 45 days she got today. The judge will not push the Sheriff's discretion too hard, and will compromise on the Sheriff getting her out of the pokey so his people can get some rest.
There's one other possibility. It was suggested on Fox-News today. Geragos may suggest that she would be willing to pay a HUGE fine, well over the statutory maximum (which is probably $5K), and well into six figures, as a restitution for all the PITA she's caused, and she pleads to Probation Violation, gets even more probation, maybe as much as 5 years. She could execute that deal as early as Monday, and get out of jail then. As soon as she's out of the pokey, Geragos files an affidavit of prejudice against the judge, and her case is transferred to a different court.
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