Michelle Rodriguez Rule: Paris Hilton May Not Serve Jail Time

Paris Hilton has been sentenced to jail in Los Angeles for forty-five days but under what we will call the Michelle Rodriguez rule it is still unclear how much actual time Miss Hilton will serve behind bars.  The former "Lost" star Michelle was sentenced to 60 days in the very same facility in which Paris is scheduled to do time for the very same offense -- probation violation over a DUI conviction. Rodriguez served a grand total of 2 hours before jail officials told her to get lost, reports TMZ.Com.

Rodriguez was sentenced for violating probation terms after her drunken driving arrest in Hawaii. She was released on May 30 of last year from a Los Angeles County jail due to overcrowding, authorities said. 

Michelle Rodriguez Rule: Paris Hilton May Not Serve Jail Time (Image: TMZ/Booking)

She was still ordered to serve 30 days of community service and remain on probation until June 2009, a spokeswoman for the city attorney’s office said.

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Paris may or may not get so lucky.  They certainly seem to want to put Hilton up as the poster child for celebrity justice in Los Angeles.  A rep for Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo released a statement in support of the decision to sentence Paris Hilton to 45 days in jail  "City Attorney Delgadillo believes today's ruling sends a clear message that in the City of Los Angeles, no one is above the law."

Shortly after the punishment was handed out, defense attorney Howard Weitzman said he would appeal. "I'm shocked, I'm surprised and really disheartened in the system that I've worked in for close to 40 years," Weitzman said, adding that the sentence was "uncalled for, inappropriate and bordered on the ludicrous. I think she's singled out because of who she is."

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Paris will serve her sentence at the Century Regional Detention Facility (CRDF). She will begin her sentence on June 5. If Hilton fails to report on the scheduled date, her sentence will be doubled.