Dear L.A. Sheriff’s Dept.,

Please put Paris Hilton back in jail where she belongs, to maintain at least some semblance that celebrities must follow the same laws as everyone else.

Sincerely,
A concerned citizen

update: The judge ordered Paris Hilton back to jail today, and she’s already back in!  That gives me hope, but right now she’s just staying in the medical ward while her lawyer appeals her sentence.  We’ll have to wait to see if justice truly prevails in the end.

update #2: I am amazed by some of the comments from people defending Paris’ release.  She obviously has no respect for the law and thinks she is above it.  She was almost proven right in this case.

This was not an unfairly harsh sentence.  Paris was a menace on the road and hopefully she realizes that now.  After getting her license suspended and put on probation for drunk driving, she just kept right on driving.  Even after being caught doing this once and not punished for it, she was caught yet again, this time going double the speed limit and without any headlights on at night.  It is lucky that nobody has been injured so far from her reckless driving.  The fact that she tried to appeal her sentence both before going to jail and again after, despite the fact that she was clearly guilty, again showed that she thought she could get away with it.

For me this is not about hating Paris.  I think that she leads an utterly vacuous existence, but I don’t hate her.  This is about fairness and equality for all people under the law.  For every person like Paris who gets away with things because of money or fame, there is a poor person somewhere getting a more severe punishment than they deserve because they don’t have the money to hire a team of lawyers.  Paris’ release from jail was yet another example highlighting the inequities in our justice system.

Now I hope you understand why Paris needed to serve out her sentence.  L.A. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo put it well when he said that “This decision sends the message that no individual — no  matter how wealthy or powerful — is above the law. Today, justice was served.“