Why don't celebrities end up in jail?

[Archae]

Mostly, even if they DO go to jail, it's for little piddly sentences.

Meanwhile a common guy caught with a roach is in jail for life.

(The article shows just how Rush the Fathead weaseled out of his buying dope.)

http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-scandals-that-prove-well-forgive-celebrities-anything/?wa_user1=1&wa_user2=Celebrities&wa_user3=blog&wa_user4=feature_module

[riverbendviewgal]

1. it is all about

The best paid lawyers money can buy.

[99Forever]

2. Anybody who thinks there is any real justice...

... in our legal system is fucking insane or a tool of the 1%.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. How much justice can you afford?

[Journeyman]

4. "In the Halls of Justice, the only place you can find the Justice is in the Halls." ~ Lenny Bruce

And the lawyer and the DA speak outside the courtroom:

"Now, if you reduce this to that we'll make a payment of what to where, then when you pocket your reward he'll slip through and avoid his just deserts."

[hobbit709]

5. money talks.

[Whovian]

6. Money,

Here in America everything is for sale.

[TeamPooka]

7. Robert Downey Jr, Tom Sizemore and OJ Simpson disagree with your premise nt