Paris pleads guilty to cocaine possession ( Get's probation !!!! )

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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Paris Hilton acknowledged Monday that she had cocaine in her purse and pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges stemming from her arrest last month at a Las Vegas hotel-casino.


She will serve a year of probation and avoid a felony charge under the terms of a plea deal worked out with prosecutors. The celebrity heiress pleaded guilty to drug possession and obstructing an officer.
Hilton, 29, must complete a drug abuse program, pay a $2,000 fine and serve 200 hours of community service.


Hilton — wearing a champagne-colored blouse, a black pencil skirt and black platform heels — told Justice of the Peace Joe M. Bonaventure she was in possession of cocaine.


When he asked what she did to obstruct justice, Hilton, swaying side to side, responded, "I said that the purse wasn't mine to the officer," and acknowledged that she had bought it months earlier.


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When asked why she didn't fight the charge, her attorney, David Chesnoff said, "Ms. Hilton accepts the responsibility."


She faces a year in jail if she violates the probation and is arrested for anything other than a minor traffic violation.
Bonaventure told Hilton there are consequences to breaking the law.


"The purpose of this at this point is that you change your conduct," Bonaventure said. "I assure you the Clark County Detention Center is not the Waldorf Astoria."
The plea agreement does not require Hilton to be assigned a probation officer, meaning she won't have to report to anyone.


She originally faced a felony cocaine possession charge that would not have resulted in jail time.
Clark County prosecutor David Schubert called the plea deal, "a fair resolution."
"Our main concern is that Ms. Hilton stay out of trouble over the next year," Schubert told Bonaventure.


Chesnoff said Hilton would continue to volunteer with animal rights groups and children's hospitals to meet the requirements of the plea agreement.
"I know Ms. Hilton is contrite and accepts the responsibility for her actions," Chesnoff said.


Chesnoff said Hilton would attend an outpatient substance abuse treatment program.
On Aug. 26 she was pulled aside by police after her boyfriend, Las Vegas nightclub mogul Cy Waits, 34, failed field sobriety tests given by a motorcycle officer.
The couple was stopped in a black Cadillac Escalade after the officer smelled a "vapor trail" of marijuana smoke.


Hilton was arrested inside the Wynn resort, after
police say a small plastic bag containing 0.8 of a gram of cocaine spilled out of a Chanel purse she had been carrying as she reached for a tube of lip balm in front of a police lieutenant.


Hilton told police the purse and cocaine were not hers, but claimed some items in the bag belonged to her, including rolling papers, $1,300 in cash and several credit cards.
Hilton was banned from two Wynn resorts on the Las Vegas Strip after the arrest, and her boyfriend was dismissed as a nightclub partner.


Hilton briefly faced a marijuana charge in July after a
FIFA World Cup game in South Africa, but the case was dropped when a woman who was with her pleaded guilty to carrying the illegal drug.


At the Las Vegas Justice Court, a crowd of gawkers and photographers followed Hilton as she climbed into a black Cadillac Escalade after the hearing.


Hilton also attracted a pair of colorful fans.




ake Byrd, 28, wore a shirt with an image of Hilton that read "Stop the Prosecution" and yelled out to her. Byrd said he had traveled from Chino, Calif., to show support for Hilton.
"I love Paris Hilton because she's classy, sassy and brassy," Byrd said.
Claude Hudson, 74, was removed from the courtroom after he tried to give Hilton a bag of chocolate candy. He said he recently had been released from jail and had written her several letters from behind bars.


During a brief news conference following Hilton's exit, Chensoff said the hotel heiress did not receive special treatment.
"She was treated like anybody else would be treated under the circumstances," he said.
 

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its 1 gram of blow she does not deserve jail time for something so small
 

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More BS !!


Anyone of Us..... We Ain't doing Probation !

did probation twice for simple possession of cocaine. dont even remember paying the fines. think once was even unsupervised (meaning no piss tests) each time under a gram was found during a search after an alcohol related arrest (oh the irony) but its not near the penalty now that it was in the keith hernandez/dale berra forbidden days. its still a waste of money.
 

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When asked why she didn't fight the charge, her attorney, David Chesnoff said, "Ms. Hilton accepts the responsibility."

In truth, the reason she did not "fight the charge" is because the prosecutor had a slam dunk case and the court informed her that if she forced them to waste time with a jury trial, the judge would be sure to impose the maximum jail term (which appears to be at least one year).
 

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More BS !!


Anyone of Us..... We Ain't doing Probation !

Any one of us would likely get the same plea offer if:

1) we could afford an attorney who charges $25K or more for arranging such plea bargains with the prosecutor
2) that's pretty much it
 

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did probation twice for simple possession of cocaine. dont even remember paying the fines. think once was even unsupervised (meaning no piss tests) each time under a gram was found during a search after an alcohol related arrest (oh the irony) but its not near the penalty now that it was in the keith hernandez/dale berra forbidden days. its still a waste of money.

In fact, I'm unaware (this is one of my few narrow specialty areas of knowledge...for better or worse) of any state or other jurisdiction that has modified sentencing laws downward since the 1980s.

More likely that the cutoff for significant jail time is a higher quantity of possession.

Here in Florida, the sentences start to escalate at 4grams+ for powder-based illicit drugs.
 

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i thought laws were worse until recently. we must just get by on the bubbly charm then. i dont remember ever paying an attorney for either charge either

i know more than one guy who has been arrested in davidson county with near an oz of powder, 25g+ at least and only got probation, no time. supervised but still. i thought thatd be several years
 

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i thought laws were worse until recently. we must just get by on the bubbly charm then. i dont remember ever paying an attorney for either charge either

i know more than one guy who has been arrested in davidson county with near an oz of powder, 25g+ at least and only got probation, no time. supervised but still. i thought thatd be several years

It's certainly overkill to hire a criminal defense attorney to defend first or second time charges for less than a gram, so you likely made smartest decision.

As for your recollection of the "guys" who have been arrested with significant quantities and only got probation, I'd be willing to bet the farm as to how they got by and you (nor any of us) will like to hear it.

That is - they very likely gave up one or more other people (sellers) to the narcs as part of the plea bargain agreement with the prosecutor.

They would of course never admit to that, but that's frankly the only way to avoid what are usually mandatory minimum jail sentences for "an ounce+" of powdered drugs.
 

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It's a money thing not a celebrity thing. If you can afford good counsel you get off with probation, fine and some volunteer work. If you are poor you serve jail time. Why lock the poor people up you ask? To scare the rich folks into paying top dollar to the state to keep their tender asses out of jail. I think celebs kind of get a rotten deal when they get arrested for minor shit because it doesn't go away silently like if you or I were to get arrested.
 

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I hate Lindsay Lohan but how does she go to jail and Paris Hilton gets off with possession of cocaine?I mean how many Dui's Dwi's,Cocaine possession,marijuana possession,and car accidents will she have and be able to be free? MONEY TALKS
 

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Seems fairly normal to me. If you are not on probation and can spend the $10-20,000 for an attorney, you get probation. No state or city wants to fight a jury trial and waste $100k to lock you up. No state or city wants all their cops subpoenoed, records pulled, etc... A good attorney pulls everything and shows the cops were racist or gender biased or whatever. Instead they take your plea and a fine.

Now on the other hand if you can't pay the fine or pay to fight a jury trial you go to jail.

Paris - I'm very sorry, I wasn't on probation, I have no record in NV = no jail time.
Lindsey - I've been arrested 2-3-4 times in CA. I don't give a shit about court - hell I wont even show up. The judge can't do anything to me. I'll paint fuck off judge on my fingernails. Then when on probation I'll drink and fail drug tests again. Won't surprise me if she goes for 6-12 months soon!

Sean
 

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