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Paris Hilton released from prison
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Hollywoodaction



Joined: 02 Jul 2004

PostPosted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 4:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

twg wrote:
itaewonguy wrote:
she has lost all street cred!

Paris Hilton had street cred?

What street? Sesame Street?


Laughing Laughing Laughing

No, you silly. Easy Street.
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RACETRAITOR



Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea

PostPosted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Beej wrote:

Paris Hilton is paying for OJ and Micheal Jackson.


What are you talking about? OJ Simpson isn't a white woman.
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Tokki1



Joined: 14 May 2007
Location: The gap between the Korean superiority and inferiority complex

PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I heard she dropped the soap so many times she had to see a chiropractor.
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Hollywoodaction



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

RACETRAITOR wrote:
Beej wrote:

Paris Hilton is paying for OJ and Micheal Jackson.


What are you talking about? OJ Simpson isn't a white woman.


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newton kabiddles



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

She had a DUI and then drove twice on a suspended license. Why is she in jail? NO ONE goes to jail for that. I've known guys with more than 3 DUI's who drove on suspended licenses and never went to jail.
She shouldn't be in jail.
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RACETRAITOR



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

newton kabiddles wrote:
She had a DUI and then drove twice on a suspended license. Why is she in jail? NO ONE goes to jail for that. I've known guys with more than 3 DUI's who drove on suspended licenses and never went to jail.
She shouldn't be in jail.


"She shouldn't be in jail" is different from "she shouldn't have been in jail." After a judge sentences you, the system doesn't account for him changing his mind. Maybe she didn't need to go to jail, but the biggest miscarriage of justice here is letting her out early.
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khyber



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If someone, while in jail, makes the right choices to change their life, once they ahve completed their punishment, I have opinion no of them.

Apparently, PH has had some kinda epiphany and wants to start doing more selfless work. While I'll believe that when I see it, the mere fact that she SAID that means something has obviously effed up her circuitry
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newton kabiddles



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

RACETRAITOR wrote:
newton kabiddles wrote:
She had a DUI and then drove twice on a suspended license. Why is she in jail? NO ONE goes to jail for that. I've known guys with more than 3 DUI's who drove on suspended licenses and never went to jail.
She shouldn't be in jail.


"She shouldn't be in jail" is different from "she shouldn't have been in jail." After a judge sentences you, the system doesn't account for him changing his mind. Maybe she didn't need to go to jail, but the biggest miscarriage of justice here is letting her out early.


She's back in now right? Or did they let her out again?
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Rteacher



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hilton's prosecutor under fire for double standard

By Steve Gorman
Wed Jun 20, 7:45 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The city prosecutor who condemned Paris Hilton's early release from jail as celebrity favoritism is now under fire for a case of special treatment closer to home -- acknowledging his wife was wanted for arrest for nine years.

The disclosure, first reported by the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, is the latest in a mushrooming scandal that has engulfed City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, who ran for California attorney general last year but lost.

According to the Times, a warrant for his wife's arrest was issued by a judge in 1998 after she failed to appear in court on charges of driving without insurance on a suspended license in an unregistered car.

Michelle Delgadillo, originally charged under her maiden name, was never detained in the nine intervening years, though the court order for her arrest remained valid until Wednesday.

Hours after the Times story broke, she appeared in court to plead no contest to a misdemeanor charge of driving without a license, and the warrant was canceled.

She was sentenced to 12 months on probation and fined $431, according to a spokesman for Delgadillo's office.

The turn of events was especially embarrassing for Delgadillo because it came two weeks after he publicly chided Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca for releasing Hilton from jail early and placing her under house arrest for unspecified medical problems.

Hilton, the celebrity heiress and star of the reality TV show "The Simple Life," originally was sentenced to 45 days behind bars for driving on a suspended license in violation of her probation in a previous drunken-driving case.

"If law enforcement officials are to enjoy the respect of those we are charged with protecting, we cannot tolerate a two-tiered jail system where the rich and powerful receive special treatment," Delgadillo said at the time.

It was his office that prosecuted Hilton and pressed for a 45-day sentence, which a Times investigation later found was more time than most county inmates serve for similar offenses.

Delgadillo came under increasing fire on Tuesday when, after dodging media inquiries for days, he acknowledged that his wife had been driving his city-owned vehicle on a suspended license when it was damaged in a 2004 accident and later repaired at taxpayer expense.

He also conceded that he drove for more than a year without automobile insurance required of all California drivers and that his wife was uninsured when she left the scene of another 2004 accident involving the couple's personal car.

At a City Hall news conference, Delgadillo called his own behavior a breach of "the public trust." On Wednesday, he and his wife issued statements saying they were "embarrassed" by the latest revelations, and Delgadillo said he had been unaware of his wife's arrest warrant until Wednesday.

Reuters/Nielsen

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070620/en_nm/hilton_prosecutor_dc_3;_ylt=Aj0plvq62YDjaVFyD1MqY9YE1vAI

Hypocrisy mixed with political opportunism ...
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