Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
I agree with Old Trader and others on this one. This sentence is unfair, not when violent criminals are being released or given ridiculously lenient sentences. This is a grandstanding judge who wanted some limelight. Let her spend the night in lockup, ok, maybe she needs that message, but 45 days is overkill.
You people need some basic logic skills. Stop forming your opinion as a reaction to someone else opinion.
It's pretty straightforward. She was put on probation only this year. She failed to comply with her probation. That means jail time.
NOW, we bring in the other issues, like driving on a suspended license again after signing a paper that fully acknowledges that you won't do it again. Also, speeding 70mph in a 35mph and having headlights off in the middle of the night.
It's fairly obvious that people here do not understand probation and what it means. It's also obvious that you people keep wrongfully thinking that Paris got jail time for a DUI, when this is not the case. This b*tch went beyond not complying with her probation, she stepped way over the line. On top of that, she did it in a manner where it's obvious that she was not taking her sentence seriously. There is no DUI issue, she received standard treatment for her DUI offense.
She is not even going to real jail, at worst, she was in a special detention center for celebrities, now she is at some rehab/mental hospital. Please, the rest of USA would be doing backflips if they had to do their jailtime where Paris gets to "suffer".
Now if she simply did not comply with her probation and the judge was trying to lock her up for missing the drunk driving course, then I would agree with the Paris lovers. But that is far from the case.
Fact is, she is still getting off very easy. See, some average folk end up being thrown into jail for 30-60 days for a DUI or driving on a suspended license. And they happen to run into hardcore criminals on their way to the pen there. The results are sometimes a pain in the ass (pun intended).
After all that, they have to deal with a 2-3 year suspended license and insurance surcharges. No chauffers in that reality.
What they should do is throw Paris into general population for a week. That would set her straight. Drop the rest of the penalties (as if they matter anyway), just throw her into general population for even 5 days.