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Originally Posted by D
You may be right on the summary probation thing - I dunno. Ever consider she received this slap on the wrist in the first place because of her status? It seems she was given plenty of preferential treatment in the past - reflected by the fact that she seems to be the first person released from sheriff's custody due to "medical problems."
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She did not recieve a slap on the wrist in the first place. She recieved what an average person would recieve for a first offense. It is not infrequent for a person to be let out of jail to serve house arrest for many different reasons including medical reasons. So you are wrong.
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I know someone who went to jail for his first offense of driving with a suspended liscence (actually he had just parked his car) off Sunset. No other crimes were in the process of being committed - including wreckless driving or break of probation.
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You are not telling the whole story, and maybe were not told the whole story. There would not be any jail time for anyone with a first offense. So you are wrong.
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I think that's very debatable. To me, it simply seems he noticed someone that considered herself impervious to the system, and so saught the maximum he could under the law in an effort to impart onto her that she wasn't. As an Angelino with something very personal at stake in this matter (as I've expressed a couple times now), I, for one, would not have felt she would have been reformed with a simple anklet for a few weeks.
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The punishment is supposed to fit the crime and driving with a suspended license is not much of a crime.
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What country are you from again? Nazi Germany? Imperial Rome?
We have this thing called constitutional cgovernment in the U.S. It's the job of the judiciary to interpret law. It's the job of the executive (e.g. the sheriff's office) to execute those interpretations. I know most Americans have fogotten this facet of the way things work here in the last 7 years - but , I assure you, it's still the basis of our State Governments, at least.
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The Sheriff has the power to release inmates from his jail for many different reasons and he exercises that power virtually every day. It is SOP to the point that he does not normally file with the court, as he is technically required to do. Normally Judges do not interrfer with the power of the Sheriff as this Judge has.
I will not be surprised to see the Sheriff file the proper paper work with the court and she will be released to house arrest once again.