This would be (at least) the second time Fawcett's son has received special privileges & been escorted from jail to visit his mother.

While i shouldn't be so cold hearted ... he is, after all, grieving the death of his mother ... this is an example where fame and fortune in the land of sin has bought a criminal special privileges.
If one guilty man gets special treatment, they all should.

I don't think this treatment had anything to do with race (he is white), but try telling that to minorities (including the poor!) who don't get to get out of jail with a special escort to see their wife, sister, mother or child's funeral or wedding. I think this is a case of a star-struck law-enforcement department who (in the first case) wanted to see Farrah, and (now) who want to attend her funeral.

CNN reported the following about O'Neal:

"O'Neal was arrested in September when deputies found methamphetamine during a probation search at the Malibu, California, home of his father, actor Ryan O'Neal. The younger O'Neal was on probation for a 2008 felony drug conviction involving heroin and meth.

Monday's court order will allow Redmond O'Neal out of jail for up to three hours for the funeral. A sheriff's deputy is to accompany him at all times, according to the order, issued in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

O'Neal, 24, will be allowed to wear civilian clothes for the funeral.

He is undergoing what the sheriff's department has called an "intense drug rehabilitation program" in the L.A. County jail."

So he wasn't in prison for murder, but he also wasn't simply in jail for public intoxication (do they even have that in California?)

I was about to apologize for jumping to conclusions when i read the "intense drug rehab" quote, but that could simply be jailhouse humor ...

But if the rehab program (paid for by California state tax dollars - dollars, which in turn were paid for by federal tax dollars when our government had to bail their state out) was so "intense" that the "patient" had to be locked up in order for it to be effective, then isn't this 3 hour vacation going to render the program less effective, in turn costing the taxpayers additional money that could have been spent on getting communists jobs in our educational system, buying big-screen TVs for homeless shelters, giving foodstamps to girlfriends of drug dealers, or closing down car manufacturers who can't make cars that do 85MPG on fuel made from moldy organic lunchmeat?

I know personally of persons incarcerated in other left-coast states who didn't get this kind of opportunity.  An ex-con who "served his time" and was released from prison ... but the 'release' process took an extra month, so he missed his sister-in law's final days as cancer took her.  A stupid kid who was drunk driving, was sent to rehab, got released, then a paperwork error caused him to get brought back in (to a different county) for several months, making him miss his probation officer, which caused a warrant to be issued for his arrest ... when the paperwork error was corrected (someone else of the same name), he was still 'guilty' of not checking in during that time (in which he was in jail in a neighboring county), so he went immediately to THAT jail ... and on and on.

neither of these guys had the money or famous parents that O'Neal has, however, so they certainly deserved what they got, right?



sources:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/06/30/farrah.fawcett.funeral/index.html