PARIS HILTON on house arrest?!!!!! (drugs, attorneys, O.J., crime)
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Im not into the whole entertainment tonight thing but i saw on the news that Paris Hilton is getting put on house arrest rather tha serving her sentence. She claimed to have medical problems that wouldnt allow her to remain in jail for her sentence.. Ok I am a white man right.....
and i am really frikin outraged at this because i am not one of those rich white people that minorities talk about always not having to deal with poverty or all of what they think in thier heads about white people. That's not me....
I'm 29 years old and split rent with my mother and have to make repairs on my messed up car and get teeth pulled cuz of cavities and cant afford to and i dont even have the money for a bank account but i am in school between semesters ....i took time from school cuz of bills that had to be payed and no i dont have even one credit card ....im talkin of real bills......
well now this "rich white girl" gets off because she throws a little hissy fit about not being able to stay in her jail cell....and that just adds to the stereotype of how white people in america have every thing tha way they want it......
does anyone out there disagree and understand why they let her out? or does anyone take this as another white person doesnt have to go through the struggles of minorities?
or does anyone take this as another white person doesnt have to go through the struggles of minorities?
I don't think *anyone* has taken it this way! There are millions of people in America that experience shoestring budgets, millions more that live in abject poverty, regardless of race or ethnic origin.
I think it's terrible that she was let out of jail. That's call enabling. It's bad enough when parents and the like do it, but when the law does it, that's pretty pathetic. With the little slap on the wrist, she may never own up to her responsibilities if she's treated like a princess, a princess that she IS NOT!!
I don't believe it has anything to do with minorities. Maybe being rich helps, I don't know. Remember O.J.? That's a perfect case where being in the minority didn't have anything to do with murdering two people.
Do I think that whites are treated the same as minorities in the crimial justice system? No. I don't know anyone who could say that. But I also think that if this was Oprah, the same thing would have happened. Because the only color more important than Black and White in the USA is Green.
My neice whose life is one nightmare of drugs and alcohol after another, wants to live her life like Paris...of course her parents don't have the money that the Hilton's do...This breaking the law and pleading ignorance is setting a dangerous precendence for all the dizty followers of hers out there...
Paris should be in jail where anyone else would be...no matter what fit of the vapors she throws...AND that is my guess, that she fainted or some such thing to get out of being in jail.
I don't think there's a racial inequality in our criminal justice system. I do think wealthy people can afford better attorneys and therefore are treated with more respect under the law. Really it's just simple math. A poor defendant has a public defender who has most likely 50 other clients while prosecutors usually have much smaller case loads, their own investigators and crime labs to back them up. If a defendant has money it doesn't matter what his race is. If a defendant doesn't have money he is most likely going to sit in jail for the better part of a year before his case is resolved. Frequently, pleading it out to time served just to get released from jail. Even if he's factually innocent.
As far as the Hilton case goes we'll find out tomorrow if she has to go back to jail. I was watching a cable news program this evening where several experts spoke on the subject. The concessus was that the Sheriff has the authority to release her because it's his jail. Even so, they are reporting that the judge was consulted before Paris was released. She has to go before the judge tomorrow because the city attorney scheduled it, not the judge.
They also reported that the LA jail, under the authority of the Sheriff, released over 200,000 people last year early from their sentences. Most straight onto the streets without the electronic monitoring that Hilton has.
I don't think there's a racial inequality in our criminal justice system. I do think wealthy people can afford better attorneys and therefore are treated with more respect under the law. Really it's just simple math. A poor defendant has a public defender who has most likely 50 other clients while prosecutors usually have much smaller case loads, their own investigators and crime labs to back them up. If a defendant has money it doesn't matter what his race it. If a defendant doesn't have money he is most likely going to sit in jail for the better part of a year before his case is resolved. Frequently pleading it out to time served just to get released from jail. Even if he's factually innocent.
As far as the Hilton case goes we'll find out tomorrow if she has to go back to jail. I was watching a cable news program this evening where several experts spoke on the subject. The concessus was that the Sheriff has the authority to release her because it's his jail. Even so they are reporting that the judge was consulted before Paris was released. She has to go before the judge tomorrow because the city attorney ordered it, not the judge.
They also reported that the LA jail, under the authority of the Sheriff, released over 200,000 people last year early from their sentences. Most straight onto the streets without the electronic monitoring that Hilton has.
I am originally from Texas and I can tell you for a fact that there is racial inequality there...
I dont think it is so much a race issue as a who are you issue. I am just a middle aged bald white dude with out a pot to p** in. I think if i was in the clink for 3 days and started that crap they would say suck it up ya wimp.
I also think she was starting to go into some type of withdrawl
I dont think it is so much a race issue as a who are you issue. I am just a middle aged bald white dude with out a pot to p** in. I think if i was in the clink for 3 days and started that crap they would say suck it up ya wimp.
I also think she was starting to go into some type of withdrawl
Normal people would have been sent to the medical ward at the jail...
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