Checkout Time for Hilton?

A while back I posted a brief comment (amazingly) agreeing with Al Sharpton that it certainly appeared Paris Hilton was receiving preferential treatment by her early release, later rescinded by her sentencing judge. Now the Los Angeles Times reports she may, in fact, be serving more time in jail than some 80% of similar cases. If so, I was wrong (hey, it wasn't the first and won't be the last time!) and she should be dealt with like the others. Having said that, her being among the top (or bottom) 20% of the curve in this case doesn't strike me as especially egregious and, in any case, we're talking a few weeks out of the life of someone who doesn't exactly have a job on the line or a family to feed. Thus, I don't see her remaining sentence as per se unjust. (I assume she's right around the 20% mark, otherwise the report would have been over 85% or 90% or whatever.)

I don't give a rodent's hindquarters about Paris Hilton, but the notion of making an example of her because of her wealth or celebrity is obscene. Arguments about the justice of the laws in question aside, she should be treated no better and no worse than the average person convicted of her offenses. That's what equal justice under law is all about; no more and no less.