LOS ANGELES - Paris Hilton's cool, glamorous image evaporated Friday when she showed up in court disheveled, with no makeup, her hair askew and her face red with tears as her lawyers pleaded for her to remain under house arrest.

Crying out for her mother when she was ordered back to jail, she gave the impression of a little girl list in the mysteries of the legal system that sent her to jail, released her and sent her back again.

"It's not right," shouted the weeping Hilton. "Mom," she called out to her mother, Kathy Hilton, who was also in tears.

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Hilton had served just three of her 45 day sentence before LA Sheriff Lee Baca released her because of an undisclosed medical condition.

Just another example of a high profile celebrity getting off easy?

 Local attorney John Patrick Dolan says no. Last night Bill O’Reilly drilled him on “The O’Reilly Show” about celebrity justice and Baca’s soft hand with the rich and powerful.

“This is a ridiculous, extreme sentence because of who she is,” Dolan said.

Dolan has been a criminal law attorney specializing in DUI cases since 1978. His office is in Indio. He regularly makes appearances on Fox News and Court TV.

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• September 26, 2006 – Hilton is charged with misdemeanor Driving Under the Influence.
• January 9, 2007 – A Not Guilty plea is entered on behalf of Hilton.
• January 15, 2007 – Hilton is pulled over by California Highway Patrol and is informed that her license is suspended. She signs a document acknowledging that she is not to drive until her license is properly issued… Note: This is before she is placed on probation.
• January 22, 2007 – Hilton pleads guilty to a reduced charge of alcohol related reckless driving.
• February 27, 2007 – Hilton is cited for a misdemeanor driving on a suspended license.
• March 29, 2007 – The L.A. City Attorney’s Office petitions the court to revoke Hilton’s probation. The basis of the violation of probation petition was that Hilton failed to register in the court required alcohol awareness program and the February citation for driving under a suspended license. It should be noted that she was eligible to have her license reissued on a restricted basis but as of February 27th she had not done so because she had not enrolled in the alcohol awareness program.
• May 3, 2007 – The Prosecution recommends in a 16-page brief that Hilton serve 45 days in jail for the probation violation… Note: A written brief 16-pages is unheard of for a misdemeanor probation violation.
• May 4, 2007 – Judge Michael Sauer sentences Hilton to 45 days in jail.
• June 3, 2007 – Hilton reports to jail to serve her sentence.
• June 7, 2007 – Hilton is released from jail for an undisclosed medical problem and ordered to serve her sentence on home confinement. Later that day Judge Sauer orders her to return to court on June 8th.
• June 8, 2007 – Paris Hilton is ordered to complete the remainder of her sentence in the L.A. County Jail. As she stood before the judge on this day she had been enrolled in the alcohol awareness program and her license had been reissued, although it seems that this did not make an impression on the court.
• June 11, 2007 – Hilton abandons her appeal of the sentence.

The bottom line here is that Paris Hilton was sentenced in a harsher fashion that anyone in Southern California based on the facts of this case.

By contrast, Michelle Delgadillo, the wife of L.A. City Attorney Rockey Delgadillo who is prosecuting the case against Paris Hilton, was cited for driving on a suspended license in 2005 and received a $186 fine!

3 days and out is typical for a non-violent misdemeanor sentence. It happens everyday, all the time, all over Southern California.

Paris Hilton’s lawyers knew that she would receive this kind of treatment which made it easy for them to agree with her PR representatives in advising Paris to withdraw her appeal and agree to “do her time like anyone else”.

Paris Hilton was reassigned to a home detention monitoring program, also referred to as “Sheriff’s Parole”, at 2:09 am today.

She was transported early this morning to an undisclosed location and transferred to her lawyer’s custody and then taken to her home where she will spend the next 40 days on home detention.

Late Thursday, Judge Michael T. Sauer issued an Order to Show Cause why Sheriff Baca should not be held in contempt of court for releasing Hilton on home detention contrary to the court’s explicit orders.

Hilton is to be transported by LA County Sheriffs to attend this hearing. The City Attorney will argue that Hilton should be recommitted to the LA County Jail.

Hilton’s defense team will no doubt argue that Hilton is being victimized by this struggle between the court and the LA County Sheriff.

3 days and out is typical for a non-violent misdemeanor sentence. It happens everyday, all the time, all over Southern California.

Paris Hilton’s lawyers knew that she would receive this kind of treatment which made it easy for them to agree with her PR representatives in advising Paris to withdraw her appeal and agree to “do her time like anyone else”.

Paris Hilton was reassigned to a home detention monitoring program, also referred to as “Sheriff’s Parole”, at 2:09 am today.

She was transported early this morning to an undisclosed location and transferred to her lawyer’s custody and then taken to her home where she will spend the next 40 days on home detention.

Actually, it is most likely that the court will modify the sentence on a Motion to Reconsider.

Hilton now is in the SB1176 Alcohol Program and has had her license reissued.

Already, Hilton has enrolled in the SB 1776 Drinking Driver Program and had her license re-issued.

Most likely Hutton’s next move will be to file a Motion for Reconsideration on the probation violation sentence.

June 5, 2007 is the scheduled surrender date for Hilton. Most likely between now and then, Hutton will get into court and do what is necessary to resolve the matter.

Generally speaking, in circumstances such as this, most Judges would relent and eliminate the jail sentence. It remains to be seen if this will be the case in Paris Hilton’s matter.

The Judge also ruled that Hilton was excluded from spending the jail time in a local jail, on home detention, or anywhere else other than the Los Angeles Lynwood Women’s Correctional Facility.

Hilton’s lawyer, Howard Weitzman, says that he will appeal the Judge’s sentence calling it “inappropriate, uncalled for and bordering on the ludicrous.” “I think she was singled out for who she is.”

The sentence is completely out of line with what any average citizen would receive for driving on a suspended license. Generally speaking a minimal fine and no other sanctions would be imposed.

The fault, if there is any, lies on her defense team and her publicist, Elliott Mintz.

Her lawyers and her publicist could easily have headed the problem off by making sure that she was enrolled in the court required alcohol awareness program and had her license re-issued before the hearing.

It appears that her high profile lawyer and publicity representative failed to do the minimal necessary to protect their client’s interests.

Hilton will be able to appeal the Judge’s sentence to a Superior Court Appellate Panel, and if there is any justice left in Los Angeles, the sentence should be stricken.