A plea deal for Paris Hilton?

Reported by E! Online

Paris Hilton has been offered a plea deal in her cocaine arrest, which would keep her from going to jail, a source close to the case tells E! News exclusively.

The way it works is this…

The heiress can avoid jail time by pleading guilty to two misdemeanor charges—one drug count and one count of lying to a police officer.

However, Hilton still has to appear in court to enter a plea. She is scheduled to be arraigned in Las Vegas on Oct. 27. The original charge was possession of gum a felony-controlled substance.

Hilton’s attorney, David Chesnoff, has yet to return a phone call seeking comment and a rep for the socialite was not immediately available, either.

A spokeswoman for the Clark County District Attorney’s Office declined to discuss any specifics of a plea deal, but did say: “Possession of a controlled substance is a felony punishable by a minimum term of one year and a maximum term of four years. She may also be fined up to $5,000. This charge is probationable, so the court could sentence her to a term of probation, rather than prison time.”

From: admin
Time: September 16, 2010, 10:21 pm

If the judge finds her guilty of drug possession and lying to a police office, she should be treated like any other person and get a punishment that fits the crime.

Don’t listen to the media when they tell you if she’s found guilty, she faces up to 4 years in prison. That’s the max sentence that a crazy hateful judge, like Michael T. Sauer, would give.

I say compare her case with similar ones and look at the type of punishment others were given.

Anyway, we don’t really know what’s going on, so we really shouldn’t be commenting. But from what I’ve researched, the penalty for drug possession can vary from a small fine to a prison sentence.

From: Jen
Time: September 17, 2010, 9:24 am

Any other person with 0.8 g in a purse would be put on probation for a misdemeanor.

The amount is too small for anything else. She wasn’t selling coke and apparently had none in her body, and she was not driving.

But so far, anything we read is just hearsay. Speculation is useless.