Quintana Allowed to Leave Courthouse from a Special Exit

As I said yesterday, I don’t revel in the misfortunes of Rachel Quintana. But if you have been monitoring social networking today (the modern-day water cooler), a lot of people have expressed an opinion one way or another about her sentence.

I’ve also been talking with people in media circles and it turns out that several news operations in town were set-up in various locations to get a shot of Quintana leaving the courthouse today.

Word is they weren’t able to get a shot of her because she was escorted out of the courthouse through an alternate exit.

My question is simple…why?

One critique many have said is that the sentence was pretty light and that if it had been a regular person, perhaps the sentence wouldn’t be so light. Now the questions will be why does a former city rep, now convicted, merit a special escorted exit to avoid cameras?

It’s tough to argue that isn’t special treatment…