Posted by
Kilroy on Saturday, June 09, 2007 7:51:29 AM
LEGAL BRIEFS
LOS ANGELES – The Reverend Al Sharpton led a candlelight vigil in support of jailed Hotel Heiress Paris Hilton last night outside of the Los Angeles County Jail facility.
Citing his own experience with the criminal justice system as evidence of racial bias,
Sharpton denounced the decision of Judge Michael T. Sauer to return Hilton to jail a day after she was released to home detention by the Los Angeles County Sheriff, saying “
The imprisonment of this woman is a travesty of justice, if Paris Hilton had been a black man responsible for slander, subornation of perjury, inciting riots, arson, and murder she would not have spent a single minute in jail”.
Tragically, Hilton, along with 260 others, perished in a fire ignited when the candle-light vigilantes pelted the facility with "shorties" of Courvoisier and candles and destroyed the detention center.
WASHINGTON, DC – The FBI has launched a nationwide manhunt for escaped convict Irving Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the White House official convicted and sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for not leaking the not secret identity of non-covert CIA employee Valerie Plame. Libby was confined under house arrest pending a sentence review hearing. Authorities monitoring Libby noticed he went missing shortly after receiving a visit from former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger. Witnesses report seeing “
someone who could have been Scooter” sticking out of Berger’s socks as he left the Libby home.
Berger, who is wanted for questioning in the escape has been a vocal supporter of Libby and has denounced the harshness of the Libby sentence saying, “
If Scooter had been a member of a Democrat Administration caught jeopardizing national security by stealing classified documents relative to terrorist activities, he’d be a free man today".
Berger will appear on Larry King Live with The Reverend Al Sharton tonight to discuss the failures of the American criminal justice system.
