Thankfully, Celebrity Eventually Backfires
Two news items got me to thinking about rich man’s justice: The federal takeover of the Michael Vick dogfighting investigation, and Paris Hilton’s probably short-lived release from jail.
I have no idea what Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was thinking in allowing Hilton’s transfer to house arrest — for “medical reasons,” which the entertainment sites were saying was either a severe rash or a near-breakdown — after she spent only three days in jail.
And I have no idea what Virginia Commonwealth Attorney Gerald G. Poindexter was thinking in criticizing the federal government’s takeover of the Vick investigation, when he’s the one who prevented a search warrant taken out by local authorities from being executed.
What I do know is it’s nice to see that a little public backlash against otherwise popular celebrities knock some of the rust off the wheels of justice.
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