'Screaming' Paris jailed again
2007-06-08 21:34
Los Angeles - Paris Hilton was taken from a courtroom screaming and crying on Friday seconds after a judge ordered her returned to jail to serve out her entire 45-day sentence for a parole violation in a reckless driving case.
"It's not right!" shouted the weeping Hilton. "Mom!" she called out to her mother in the audience.
Hilton, who was brought to court in handcuffs in a sheriff's car, came into the courtroom dishevelled and crying. Her hair was askew and she wore a grey fuzzy sweatshirt over slacks. She wore no makeup and she cried throughout the hearing.
Her body also shook constantly as she dabbed at her eyes. Several times she turned to her parents who were seated behind her in the courtroom and mouthed the words, "I love you."
Superior Court Judge Michael T Sauer was calm but apparently irked by developments of the morning. He said he had left the courthouse on Thursday night having signed an order for Hilton to appear for the hearing.
When he got in his car early on Friday, he said, he heard a radio report that she would not appear and that he had approved a telephonic hearing. He said no such thing had been approved by him.
"I at no time condoned the actions of the sheriff and at no time told him I approved the actions," he said of the decision to release Hilton from jail after three days.
"At no time did I approve the defendant being released from custody to her home on Kings Road," he said.
- AP