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At one point, her attorney, Howard L. Weitzman — calling his client someone with "unique issues and needs" who simply made a mistake — tried to shoulder some of the fault Hilton was placing on others.

Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer saw it otherwise. "She disregarded everything and continued to drive," Sauer said.

And he made it clear that he wanted no special treatment for Hilton — an heiress to the Hilton hotel fortune and a successful entrepreneur in her own right — ordering her to spend her sentence in a county jail and not a privately run "glamour slammer" where other celebrities have done their time.

Maybe she will make an amusing TV program on her time in prison.

IMO: I have driven quite a few miles in California and by and large by international standards, motoring there is quite good except for drivers like Hilton. Gere will possibly escape his public obscenity conviction in India, some would say unfairly as indeed I think it may well be - in India his behaviour seems to me to be roughly equivalent to George Michael's famous (and needless) cottaging offence in America but with many more overtones and a reasonably high corresponding penalty available. I am pleased to see there is some chance of road safety justice for celebrities in California. A reasonable degree of public safety must clearly be paramount to all - we do not need views on cultural sensitivity for that.. If Hilton does not now get time in a really nasty slammer, California justice will be seen as a laughing stock.