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Paris Hilton perhaps facing hard time after arrest in Nevada for cocaine possession

By Douglas A. Berman

Thanks to Paris Hilton, we now have a party girl successor to Lindsay Lohan in another criminal justice tangle to follow on this blog.  Here are the details via this new CBS News story:  Celebrity heiress Paris Hilton was arrested Friday night and booked into the Clark County Detention Center for possession of a controlled substance, described by Las Vegas Metro Police as cocaine.  CBS News legal analyst Lisa Bloom says a conviciton would probably mean more time behind bars for Hilton. She was a passenger in a car when Metro conducted a traffic stop around 11:30 p.m. Friday in front of the Wynn Hotel and Casino on the famed Las Vegas Strip, according to Officer Marcus Martin, public information officer, who spoke with CBS affiliate KLAS-TV...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 28, 2010 (boomark / email).