Hilton's request for Gov. Schwarzenegger's pardon

After a solid minute of laughing, the only thing I'm going to say about Paris Hilton's plea for a gubernatorial pardon is that this has to be the most ridiculous request I've ever heard of. Although Gov. Schwarzenegger didn't give a second glance to "Tookie" Wilson's clemency requests, I'm sure that this appeal of a 45-day DUI sentence will go straight to the top of his "to do" list. The fact that Yahoo news reported that her myspace petition believes that the sentence is "cruel and unfair" and "compares a Hilton pardon to Ford pardon of Nixon" is even funnier.

I have my suspicions of where or from whom Hilton has come up with the idea that rich people are above the laws, and I can only hope it isn't from her attorney. Legally, I'm not sure what her attorneys can argue in good faith is an abuse of discretion, and I doubt that whatever appellate court is going to hear this is going to somehow view her circumstances as more unusual than any of the other thousands of people who argue that their sentence is unfair. But maybe there's some magic incantation that works on the west coast. Hopefully they also raise some sort of 8th amendment issue so the US Supreme Court can take a crack at it. Or a sufficiency of the evidence argument, since that one always works. Hopefully the clerk on this case posts something on his or her blog about it for our collective benefit and humor.

Apparently Hilton has also rehired her publicist, who admittedly gave her "erroneous advice." That is equally as newsworthy. If only she has channelled these efforts into something productive, such as sticking to the terms of her parole. At least she'll have 45 days to think about it.

Tags: hilton begs for mercy, hilton appeals her 45 day sentence, hilton goes to jail, one night in paris('s jail cell)