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While Portland (and all its news organizations) are awash in a media frenzy over the Grand Floral Parade and “Tapegate,” the rest of the world is going ba-zonkers over Paris Hilton being let out of jail for being psychologically fragile—and today, going to court to decide if she’s going back IN to jail! From the AP:
Late Thursday, [Judge] Sauer issued the order for Hilton to return to court after the city attorney filed a petition demanding that Hilton be returned to jail and to show cause why Baca [the sheriff who let her free] shouldn’t be held in contempt of court.[Hilton’s release] also was met with outrage from the sheriff’s deputies union, members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, civil rights leaders, defense attorneys and others.
“What transpired here is outrageous,” county Supervisor Don Knabe told The Associated Press, adding he received more than 400 angry e-mails and hundreds more phone calls from around the country.
Hilton’s return home “gives the impression of … celebrity justice being handed out,” he said.
Baca dismissed the criticism, saying the decision was made based on medical advice.
“It isn’t wise to keep a person in jail with her problem over an extended period of time and let the problem get worse,” Baca told the Los Angeles Times on Thursday.
“My message to those who don’t like celebrities is that punishing celebrities more than the average American is not justice,” Baca said.
Wow. Punishing celebs more than ordinary people isn’t justice? What America does he live in?

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