Re: And Justice for all!

"Leadfoot" <spammerssusck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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:"Fred J. McCall" <fmccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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:> "William Black" <william.black@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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:> :
:> :"Fred J. McCall" <fmccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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:> :> You apparently don't know the difference between jail and prison.
:> :
:> :Well...
:> :
:> :There isn't one.
:> :
:>
:> Well...
:>
:> There is when YOUR silly justification for why she should have been
:> released is that "she served 10% of her sentence, which is the average
:> for women's prisons on California".
:>
:> Now, having been informed that your statistics do not apply to the
:> situation in question, you merely wriggle and try to weasel out.
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:In the situation in question the typical time served in the LA CO jail when
:caught driving on a license suspended for a DUI or what in CA is called "wet
:reckless" is anywhere from a few hours to 5 days even though the actual
:sentence is 45 days. This is due to a Federal court order regarding
:overcrowding in the LA CO jail system.
:

Cite for these numbers?

:In Paris Hilton's case she made the mistake of disrespecting the judge by
:showing up late for court and in general treating this like it was no big
:deal and blaming her handlers for not explaining what was going on. Keep in
:mind that Paris is a public spectacle by her own choice and this disrepect
:was broadcast worldwide. Contempt of court is what she is actually guilty
:of but like many judges he decided to handle this by making sure she got
:more time than normal for the offense she committed.
:
:A decision I might add I fully agree with.
:

No, in Paris Hilton's case that isn't all she was charged with and it
wasn't the first time.

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:And I can certainly understand why someone who lives in the UK might not
:understand the differences between a State prison system and a County jail
:in the US unlike "Our Freddie"
:

So can I. What I can't understand is why so many people who live in
the UK act as if they know more about the United States than those of
us who live here.


--
"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the
truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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