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How many people here in Mass go to jail on their third OUI?
The way sentencing works--you get credit for the time you spent in police custody awaiting arraignment. Any part of a day that you spend in any sort of custody counts as a "day" of your sentence. Arrested at 11:55 PM, see the judge next morning at 10, you have 2 days in custody. Surrender for sentence at 4 PM, serve 8 hours, and get released at 12:01 AM next morning, as jails don't like to keep people any longer than they have to.
There's your 4 days in jail serving what--18 hours and change?
In Ritchie's case, she probably had 2 days in police custody, and California probably knocks one day out of 4 off your sentence for "good behavior". She goes in and stays in only long enough for them to complete paperwork, and serves the balance of her sentence handcuffed to a chair.
Lots of people get treated better than this on a first offense DUI/OUI. The fact that she served any time at all for it tells me that she was treated worse than the average defendant because of her celebrity.
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