Paris Hilton...The Real Facts by the Numbers

• 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!