Charlayne's Blog

Well, it took less than 72-hours for Paris Hilton and her retinue of lawyers, doctors, and spokesmen to get her out of the slammer and get her an ankle bracelet that would limit her to the Hilton Hotel Mansion. Limits her going out but doesn't limit the party coming in to her place. Life goes on.

Usually I wouldn't care. The rich/famous are always different when it comes to how they are treated. Pee Wee Herman, Michael Jackson, O.J. Simpson, very much different than the justice meted out here in Texas.  

But Paris did something that I consider unforgivable, yet something that  has not been brought out in all the discussions about her actions: where is MADD? Paris was driving drunk. This is a totally irresponsible action and she should be in the jail for the entire sentence, which should be longer given the parole violation.

 And the sheriff giving her the boot out with the ankle bracelet should have been stopped. It's not up the him to make the decision as to who goes out and who comes in: there is a judge who makes those decisions. He should be hauled up on contempt of court charges and get to spend time in his own jail, then stripped of his office for abuse of public trust.

Paris is NOT above the law. She drove drunk and should serve all the time given (which was much shorter than anyone else doing that crime would have gotten. Our sense of outrage has been misplaced from that fact to the actions of seeing her get 3 days time instead of the 40 she was originally sentenced to.

The outrage should be that she received a sentence of 40 days instead of longer for the crime of DUI. And MADD should be all over this.