LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Screaming and crying, Paris Hilton was escorted out of a courtroom and back to jail Friday after a judge ruled that she must serve out her entire 45-day sentence behind bars rather than in her Hollywood Hills home.

"It's not right!" shouted the weeping Hilton, who violated her probation in a reckless driving case. "Mom!" she called out to her mother in the audience.

Hilton, who was brought to court in handcuffs in a sheriff's car, came into the courtroom disheveled and weeping, hair askew, sans makeup, wearing a gray fuzzy sweatshirt over slacks.

She cried throughout the hearing, her body shook constantly and she dabbed at her eyes. Several times she turned to her parents, seated behind her in the courtroom, and mouthed, "I love you."

Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer was calm but apparently irked by the morning's developments. He said he had left the courthouse Thursday night having signed an order for Hilton to appear for the hearing. - CNN

It ain't easy being her.

Note: Hilton was brought to court by police after she failed to appear this morning, instead choosing to "appear" via teleconference. It seems the judge was not amused.

Why is there such interest in this delinquent girl?. She is of a familiar pattern . These girls and boys are utterly unaware of responsibility and are utterly inconsequential. They are genuinely shocked by the consequences of their own actions.They are incapable of seeing the world through anyone elses' eyes: she did think that a videolink would be fine. She is only unusual in that she is a bit old for such behaviour. The typical inner-city girl has grown out of it by her age. (But then they are often mothers by then, which does have something of a calming and maturing effect on them )

Can't think the judge would have been pleased by reports that this defendant was so ill and so close to a breakdown that she had planned a pool party for the first night of her freedom.

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Why is there such interest in this delinquent girl?.

You have to ask that? Of people who elected George W. Bush to lead the world's last remaining super power -- TWICE! ??

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You have to ask that? Of people who elected George W. Bush to lead the world's last remaining super power -- TWICE! ??

Last I heard, our patsy, The Honorable George W. Bush, didn't win either election, so your comment doesnn't weigh in. You do know President = patsy? Deep stuff I'm telling you.

Anyway, on Paris, people care because that's what celebrity is. I will venture that any society would have an aspect of celebrity.

Like the need for mysticism/religion/the belief in unseen powers, I think there's a genetic factor at play to explain our adoration for our 'betters', and our ability to tolerate and even admire their behavior even if it is disgustingly excessive, immoral and downright evil.

It works to create social unity. If Alexander the Great's troops had been offended by his megalomania, disloyalty and cruelty toward his own troops, fewer Macedonian genes would have been shed in a wide swath across the Mediterranean, Egypt, Arabia, India, and so on.

And if the religious people of western Europe had not tolerated and even admired and adored the horrible oppressiveness of the theocratic governments, the kings and popes, then the various invaders - the Khans, the Muslims, and so forth - would have destroyed or overrun the various peoples.

And my own people deified 'Bonnie Prince Charlie', the drunken French fop who betrayed and then abandoned them.

Not that the outcome is what we ought to have desired at all, that's not the point. Just natural selection at work.

And just what is wrong with good Macedonian genes?

Our local NPR station got several hundred complaints about their coverage of this event... "What is this? NPR is doing tabloid journalism now?"

I could care less... it's not more or less offensive than many other stories out there.

And I for one have never considered Paris, or any celebrity for that matter, my "better"...although I can see where that idea comes from Babs, when it seems that so many people just can't get enough of the tabloid news. Some actually believe the National Enquirer and Star is real stuff

It's really sad - not that she's in jail, but that anyone cares

Paris Hilton? Was she named after the family corporation's hotel on the South Bank of the Seine? That's the only 'Paris Hilton' that we normally think of over here Is there a Park Lane Hilton or a Madrid Hilton in the family or are those names being saved for the next generation?

The story has made the BBC national news and The Times.Their interest is in the publicity and the fact that this girl's release and return was being followed by dozens of paparazzi and at least three press helicopters.It's an 'only in America' story.We too have people who are famous for being famous but their careers are of the Warhol quote, of brief duration.They are the mayflies for the media. Miss Hilton's seems to have had some longevity already.Is it that she figures like a royal in Britain? Most royals get publicity, mostly unwelcome, right from early days.

Dorian, bridling, demands to know: "And just what is wrong with good Macedonian genes?"

Damn, Dorian, do you have to read everything????

I must say, though , our Donovan thread was quite prophetic. There we had her scream, "Daddy, daddy, they've killed me, Daddy!" And in real life, she's declaring her undying love for Mom and Dad in the courtroom.

Young adults often discover passionate love for parents when they're in a courtroom. There's just something about a courtroom that just brings it out.

Never mind the number of times they've told these same parents, in the past, to get out of their lives and leave them alone. And to get a life. And to stop treating them like children. And to seduce themselves. And so on.

Well, Giz, I certainly don't think that silly whining thing is my better. But many adore her. Human nature. That was my point. If I had a point.

Oh Babs now that I look at my post I realize it sounded snippy...I certainly didn't mean it that way and knew you were simply stating a fact.

Boy oh boy I know that, because since the whole matter is so deliciously silly, it's hard to take a straight-on position on it!

I think Bab that Dorian wants to read and post everything so he can have the most postings of anybody on Answerpool-what was that I read again? Over 14,000 posts so far...wow is there anyone else with more on here?-and as far as Paris is concerned I think the next bit of interesting thing to watch will be Nicole Ritchie who may be going to jail, for I believe a DUI-as she said on Letterman one night
" Everybody ends up going to jail"-well er no they don't
and she repeated the same sort of statement that Paris did
" I am just ready to serve my time"

sounds like another Media event coming sometime

Dorian reads every post because it is his posterior on the porch swing if something goes wrong with the site.

Dorian has 14,000+ post because he talks a lot.

Also Dorian often comes to the defense of the poor and downtrodden. Just let some innocent get picked on, he's in there like a dirty shirt. 14,000 of his posts are to defend some chap whose initials are DG

hahahhahahahah

She might be named "Paris" because of the age old custom of naming children after the places they were conceived in, e.g. Brooklyn Beckham, Sydney Greenstreet etc. My next door neighbours kid is named "Back of a Volkswagen Smith."

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Young adults often discover passionate love for parents when they're in a courtroom. There's just something about a courtroom that just brings it out.

Never mind the number of times they've told these same parents, in the past, to get out of their lives and leave them alone. And to get a life. And to stop treating them like children. And to seduce themselves. And so on.

Babthrower, I agree, one of the first times I caught a case I was 13 years old for stealing
cigarettes, not just one pack, they left
the recieving door open in the back of the K-Mart, and some friends and me grabbed these red totes full of cartons and ran off with them.
We sold them in our school anything for 2 bucks a pack.

When we got caught, and they broke my friend, I was at first denying everything, until they brought my mother. Then I spilled the beans.
At Juvenille Court I was crying in my short sleeve shirt and tie.
After the Judge told me I was going to do 7 days in the Juvenille Detention Center, I cried for my mother, I didn't scream or yell, I just turned to my mom and cried and said I was sorry and to please help me.
There was nothing she could do.
I didn't understand it then. I understand now.


The Paris Hilton thing, I really was very harsh with her. As Much as I like to see celebrity justice.
Her sentence is out of hand. It is true about the overcrowding. Someone with her problem would have been out of jail within 2 to 4 hours, sometimes even immediately.
What screwed her is the "medical condition"
excuse that the Sheriff announced.
She could have got out possibly on an overcrowding explanation.
I believe in this fact because I also have been excused several times due to overcrowding.
I still don't like her, but I also don't like to see injustice happen.
She should have just kept her mouth shut, and did the time and got out on the overcrowding
statute in the first place.

Well, Ron, that she would plead 'medical condition' suggests that she just thinks she's so special. What detainee in her circumstances could not plead some medical condition or other? Claustrophobia? Anxiety attacks? Insomnia? Galloping heebie-jeebies? And what good would that do them?

I think the bad publicity for the sherrif's act put the spotlight on her, all right, but it's not injustice when a person of normal intelligence continues to repeat acts which could have terrible consequences (accidental death to some innocent, for example) and then gets the regular sentence. Which she did.