Paris Hilton Sent Back to Jail
Category: Career, Her Diary, Celebrity News, Gossip, Lifestyle
The news about Paris Hilton dominated news coverage today. The AP reported that Paris was “taken from a courtroom screaming and crying” after Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer’s ruling. A judge at a hearing today not only ordered the heiress be taken back behind bars but that she also serve her original 45-day sentence, not the reduced sentence she started serving earlier this week.
“The defendant is remanded to county jail to serve the remainder of her 45-day sentence. This order is forthwith, the judge announced his decision. Hilton screamed. It’s not right! shouted the weeping Hilton. Mom!” she called out to her mother in the audience. Eight deputies posted in the courtroom immediately ordered all spectators out.
Paris’s mother Kathy threw her arms around her husband Rick and sobbed uncontrollably. Deputies escorted Hilton out of the room, holding each of her arms as she was led out.
Sheriff Lee Baca set off a furor in legal circles and beyond when his office announced on Thursday that Ms. Hilton would be allowed out of jail and instead put under house arrest because of an unspecified “medical condition.
The city attorney whose office prosecuted her case, Rocky Delgadillo, said it was a case of preferential treatment for a celebrity. He asked the judge to order Ms. Hilton back to jail and asked the sheriff’s department to show why it should not be held in contempt of court for letting her go in the first place.
“We cannot tolerate a two-tiered jail system where the rich and powerful receive special treatment, Mr. Delgadillo said after learning of the release.
The case has become a war of words and authority between Sauer and Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca. “I at no time condoned the actions of the sheriff and at no time told him I approved the actions,” Sauer said to the AP
Hilton’s release for an undisclosed medical condition, and the decision to allow her to serve the time at her Hollywood Hills home, angered some local and state authorities and civil rights leaders who argued it could interpreted as affording the socialite favors not available to other, less famous, inmates.
