Paris Hilton A Judicial Travesty

Talking heads and reporters are lamenting the fact that the Paris Hilton legal saga became a circus. This same group of people who were doing all of the complaining neglect to point out that but for their cameras, traveling legal analysts and helicopters overhead to beam back the live coverage, the circus would have been more like a backyard pool party.

There are problems with Paris HiltonÕs treatment, but it is the unfairness of it Ð not the fact that there is too much coverage. She should go home.

Judge Michael Sauer had a judicial hissy fit when he sentenced Hilton to a 45 day jail term because she drove on a suspended license in violation of her probation.

Then he became the Los Angeles equivalent of the Anna Nicole judge when he had a public feud with Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca after Baca released Hilton to her home for home confinement. So dangerous is Hilton, apparently, that she had to be sent immediately back to jail and it was cheers around the courthouse and on the news channels when HiltonÕs outburst was reported.