For a city that has only existed for about 100 years, there seems to be an inordinate amount of famous legal problems that have developed there. Skipping straight to the 60’s, we have: the Watts riots; rampant & gross corruption in their police department for years; the Rodney King trial, acquittal and subsequent riots; the OJ trial and its absurd verdict.
Now, here is yet another bit of ridiculousness: a celebrity named after the City of Lights, who was caught driving under the influence 3x, was sent to serve the rest of her sentence from home after only serving in jail 3 days of her 23 day sentence (which was reduced from 42 days due to overcrowding mind you). The reason she was sent home? She has an “unnamed” medical condition. Please note that the judge specifically spelled out during sentencing that this Euro-capital was not allowed to serve house detention. Also please note that nationwide, a third of all inmates have a medical condition and none of them are sent home. Rather, if they receive treatment at all, they go to a medical jail.
After I heard this news yesterday, to me, this is the final straw. LA is an absolute fucking joke. Like everything else in La-la Land, the rule of law is merely based on smoke and mirrors. I think their Supreme Court is probably just a movie set facade.
To put this in perspective, my father worked in the NYS Appellate court system for about 20 years. His goal was to try to get sentences reduced for Clients who received poor previous legal representation and who really didn’t deserve to be in jail for as long as they were sentenced. There were the guys who, while guilty, went away for 10 – 20 when they really should have only gone away for 3 – 5. He also fought for mentally retarded people who were in crime committing crews (they drove get-away cars, acted as look outs, etc) to try to get their sentences reduced as they for the most part really didn’t know what was going on. Keep in mind all of these clients admitted guilt and showed contrition. That being said, he won these types of cases once in a very blue moon, like one every other year.
That was New York. This is LA. A celebutard who could have killed someone’s son/daughter/mother/father on 3 different occasions by driving drunk received probation the first two times and was told simply “don’t drive.” While she has more than enough money to take a taxi everywhere, she continued to cruise around and pretended not to know what she was doing is wrong. She still has not shown remorse yet she received special, beneficial treatment that no other citizen in this country would receive, that is, unless you happen to be a US citizen living in LA.
The only positive I see here is that we have discovered new legal superheroes – the City of Light’s legal team. I have no clue how they were able to pull this off. It’s like they traveled faster than the speed of light. Maybe Sheriff Lee Baca got a hummer along with a two movie deal. It’s simply mind blowing (pun intended).