Made my day

[germdoc]

Hope it makes yours...

http://www.people.com/people/article...041858,00.html

[Richard in Smithville]

Now that's a great way to start the weekend.

[cabinetman]

"Room Service" takes on a whole new meaning.

[Russianwolf]

she should have served the 23 days and kept quiet. Now it looks like the judge is ordering she serve the entire 45 days.

[p8ntblr]

I have a feeling this isn't over. They'll be a few hundred appeals coming. There's a huge fight between the sheriff's office and the judge. In fact the reason she was late to the hearing was because the sheriff refused to pick her up. I've heard that the sheriff's dept has jurisdiction over how she serves sentence and the appeal could work and she could get out.

[JR]

I've heard that the sheriff's dept has jurisdiction over how she serves sentence and the appeal could work and she could get out.

I think that's more or less correct. That's why so many muggers and thieves are being released from LA County jails having served a very small portion of their sentence. So many people are being sent to jail there is no place to keep them.

Now, why there is no place for this idiot, I don't know.

JR

[RodKirby]

Oh, YES!

I guess I'll believe it (the law is impartial), when she "completes" her sentence.

[cgallery]

I think that's more or less correct. That's why so many muggers and thieves are being released from LA County jails having served a very small portion of their sentence. So many people are being sent to jail there is no place to keep them.

Now, why there is no place for this idiot, I don't know.

JR

I agree, judges sentence and sheriffs impose. Once a judge sentences they are typically done...unless they say they aren't.

I guess my point is that judges don't have much to limit their reach. Especially if the chief justice backs them up.

If the sherriff decides to let her go again, I think it is within the power of the judge (especially w/ the backup of the chief justice) to remove the Sherriff and install a deputy that will carry-out the order. But I may be wrong.

[Hoover]

That picture is priceless!

[JSCOOK]

Now that's made my day and weekend ...

[JR]

I , I think it is within the power of the judge (especially w/ the backup of the chief justice) to remove the Sherriff and install a deputy that will carry-out the order.

LOL! That would be very amusing in LA county. Sherrif Baca has been in place for many years. He's been hassling with this overcrowding problem for a long time. A tiff with the judiciary can only help him.

Nobody messes with Baca.

I'm sure he can turn this into an overcrowding issue. AFIK the logic is that Hilton's celbrity means that she'd be at undue risk if she were held in the general population. So she has to be held in a "special" part of the facility, where criminal cops and others at risk are held. There are something like only a dozen such cells.

On a slight tangent - it occured to me that in California (at least in my county) it is normal for people who have commited similar crimes to be sentenced to a "work furlough" facility. It's a dormitory environment, low security, you're allowed out in the daytime to go to work. IMO, it's pretty effective at getting the attention of drunks and pot-heads. I think you have to have job, though. I wonder if Hilton's apparent non-job status is why she wasnt' sent to such a facility.

JR

[p8ntblr]

On a slight tangent - it occured to me that in California (at least in my county) it is normal for people who have commited similar crimes to be sentenced to a "work furlough" facility. It's a dormitory environment, low security, you're allowed out in the daytime to go to work. IMO, it's pretty effective at getting the attention of drunks and pot-heads. I think you have to have job, though.
JR

I agree if you're not going to lock her up then at least give her community service. What sort of punishment is locking her up in a mansion.

[germdoc]

The only thing that would have been sweeter would have been for the judge to have sentenced her to 1) change her name to Ethel Finkelstein, 2) join a convent for at least a year--the kind where she can't speak a word to anyone, 3) swear to not dye her hair for at least a year, and 4) give up all her money to charity, at least the millions she made AFTER her notorious sex tape became public "by accident".

Then I would say she got her just desserts and justice was served.

[Russianwolf]

LOL! That would be very amusing in LA county. Sherrif Baca has been in place for many years. He's been hassling with this overcrowding problem for a long time. A tiff with the judiciary can only help him.

Nobody messes with Baca.

I'm sure he can turn this into an overcrowding issue. AFIK the logic is that Hilton's celbrity means that she'd be at undue risk if she were held in the general population. So she has to be held in a "special" part of the facility, where criminal cops and others at risk are held. There are something like only a dozen such cells.

On a slight tangent - it occured to me that in California (at least in my county) it is normal for people who have commited similar crimes to be sentenced to a "work furlough" facility. It's a dormitory environment, low security, you're allowed out in the daytime to go to work. IMO, it's pretty effective at getting the attention of drunks and pot-heads. I think you have to have job, though. I wonder if Hilton's apparent non-job status is why she wasnt' sent to such a facility.

JR

Given the judge's SPECIFIC instructions in the sentence, The Sherriff could wind up being her neighbor due to "contempt of court".

He specified no work furlough and no electronic monitoring.

[cgallery]

Given the judge's SPECIFIC instructions in the sentence, The Sherriff could wind up being her neighbor due to "contempt of court".

He specified no work furlough and no electronic monitoring.

The interesting thing is, those types of orders are routinely ignored by sheriffs. And judges typically don't do anything about it. The sheriff probably figured this was just another one of those times. I guess he figured wrong.