Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca is defending his decision to release Paris Hilton from the Century Regional Correctional Facility, after serving just three days of a twenty-three day sentence, because “she wouldn’t eat and was crying.”

“The problem here is that there is a medical issue and it isn’t wise to keep a person in jail with her problem over an extended period of time and let the problem get worse. In my opinion, justice is being served by the decision to have her serve her time at home. She would still be in the county jail if it were not for the medical advice. “My message to those who don’t like celebrities is that punishing celebrities more than the average American is not justice.”

Somebody paid this dude off.

Lee will get a chance to tell it to the judge on Friday morning (Los Angeles Time). Paris Hilton has been ordered to return to court for an emergency hearing to determine whether on not she will serve out the rest of her sentence on house arrest.