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For the love of god people ... Paris Hilton did not receive preferential sentencing treatment. If you or I engaged in the same conduct as Paris Hilton, WE WOULD NOT HAVE TO GO TO JAIL FOR LONGER THAN FOUR DAYS. She ended up with MORE jail time because she is who she is. As any public defender in the LA area will tell you, the jails are terribly overcrowded. Anyone with the sentence that Paris Hilton has would be let out to serve the remainder of time with an ankle braclet after serving 10% of their time (in her case four days). Moreover, all she did was drive on a suspended license. Few people, if anyone, gets 45 days in jail for driving on a suspended license (whether on probation or not). So, before everyone gets up in arms about unequal treatment, please do the factual investigation and figure out whether the unequal treatment was to her benefit or detriment.
