Lindsay Lohan Sentenced to 90 Days in Jail
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Lindsay Lohan has been sentenced to 90 days in jail: 30 days in jail for her first DUI arrest, 30 days for her second arrest and 30 days for reckless driving. After she is released, she will enter a 90-day inpatient rehab program, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Lohan will surrender to authorities on July 20 and report to the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynnwood, Calif. (where she spent 84 minutes in 2007). Los Angeles Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore says Lohan will be "kept away from the general jail population for the safety of everyone involved."
How much time could she actually serve? Whitmore admitted it may be as little as 25 percent, or about 22 days (or even less), because of overcrowding and the fact that she did not commit a violent crime.
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The actress, 24, sobbed as the judge announced she was in violation of her probation and read the verdict. "Are you serious?" she asked her lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley. When judge Marsha Revel asked how long she'd spent in prison in 2007, Holley said she wasn't sure, and Lohan was heard saying, "A lot!" Lohan will receive credit for her time behind bars.
Before the judge read the sentence, a teary Lindsay gave a statement to the court and claimed she "did the best I could. It has been a long haul, and I don't want you to think I don't respect you. I was doing everything I was supposed to do with all my heart... I am not taking this as a joke -- it is my life."
However, the co-owner of the DUI school in which Lohan attended testified in court earlier Tuesday that the actress blew off seven alcohol education classes.
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Cheryl Marshall, the co-owner of Right On Programs, Inc., read a letter from an instructor who called the actress' excuses "endless and disrespectful" while testifying at her probation hearing. Marshall ticked off the reasons Lohan gave for being absent: she was making a movie or promoting a clothing line, she was traveling and couldn't get on another flight, she was in court (she was actually in Cannes), her uncle had died (it was determined she did not attend his funeral).
Marshall told the judge she did not follow up on Lohan's excuses to verify if they were true.
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The judge decided not to admit evidence that Lohan may have been drinking when her SCRAM bracelet was set off June 6 while she was partying after the MTV Movie Awards. At the time, her mother, Dina, blamed a clubgoer for spilling a drink on her.
Michael Lohan's lawyer, Lisa Bloom, also wrote a letter on his behalf imploring the judge not to send Lindsay to jail.
"In Lindsay’s case, her last term of incarceration lasted only 84 minutes. This not only made a laughingstock of our criminal justice system in the eyes of the world, which followed this case, but taught her that jail is a revolving door and poses no real threat or deterrent," Bloom wrote.
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While the court was in recess, Lindsay changed from her first outfit (gray pants and a black blouse) into a new look: black pants, a cowl-neck shirt and a white cardigan.
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174*Edit: Jim, not Elizabeth.
About time she went to jail but of course she won't be there for 90 days like Elizabeth said. But she needs a lot more help than just jailtime; rehab, but a more extended version than just 1-2 months. She needs to get rid of these drugs or she will die. Addiction sure is a disease.
Heck, all those tears & she will be out in 20 days, if that. So the chickens come home to roost...By the way I found a website that give you prizes for your opinions and 4 play games here is the topic about Lindsay: opinion.EZWINGAME.kom/topics/lindsay-l-is-going-to-have-a-good-behavior-at-jail
I am so sick of people blaming the parents, she is a 24 year old woman who should no rt. from wrong - my 4 year olds do. She needs jail time to wake her up & I like her. But she needs to be treated like everyone else - I hope the best for her - if jail doesn't do it nothing will.
Maybe when this girl turns 25 she will magically realize how badly she has screwed up! Shame on both of her parents. Both are poster children for bad parenting!
Boo freakin Hoo!
Has this judge lost his mind? He give this scabby skank only 90 days for putting up with the crap that she's done. I would have given her six months to a year for that crap. Rest assured she'll do it again when she gets out, and I'm willing to bet her sister will do the same thing cause they will never learn............
PUT THIS...B I T C H...away ONCE AND FOR ALL!
Yessss!!!! She thought she was above the law, good for that judge!
Please show me that the justice system doesn't care if you are rich or poor, ordinary or famous. Ms. Lohan as snubbed her nose at the justice system and made a mockery of the courts. I think anything less than at least 60 days would show us that her disdain was warranted.
Who here thinks she'll actually have to spend all 90 days in jail??!?!?! I did watch the video though, frickin hilarious! Maybe this is the wake-up call that she needs to (hopefully) get her life back on track.
well it's about damn time
Will 90 days in jail really help her???
finally! she's getting some form of punishment for her actions! i mean really - her scram bracelet went off while she was partying because someone "poured a drink on it!?!" give me a break...she was undoubtably drinking!!! it's sad that a girl of her (former) talents and abilities has to learn the hard way, but she was given chance after chance and pissed them all into the wind. may you serve more than 84 minutes this trip, lilo!!!
IT IS ABOUT TIME.STUPID HOLLYWOOD THINKS THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH EVERYTHING,AND MOST DO. MARK MY WORDS SHE WILL BE OUT IN LESS THAN 20 DAYS..SHE WONT BE IN THERE FOR THE FULL 3 MONTHS.HER MOM IS AS PATHETIC AS HER DAUGHTER.WHAT A SAD EXCUSE FOR A MOTHER.AND I HEAR SHES TRYING TO MAKE ANOTHER REALITY SHOW.LOL AND DINA LOHAN CALLED POLICE WHEN SHE DIDNT GET A FREE CAKE FROM CARVEL.CARVEL ICE CREAM GAVE LINDSAY A "BLACK CARD" IN WHICH SHE CAN GET FREE ICE CREAM FOR LIFE BUT HER FAMILY THOUGHT THEY CAN USE IT ANYTIME AS WELL..BUT IT WAS ONLY FOR LINDSAY, AND FOR 6 MONTHS THEY ABUSED THAT CARD AND THEY FINALLY TOOK IT AWAY AND STUPID DINA CALLED THE POLICE.WHAT A HORRIBLE DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY.DINA LOHAN=ANOTHER PIMP WH*RING OUT HER KIDS FOR FAME.
ABOUT DAMN TIME! She needs to be held accountable for her actions. Just because she's famous doesn't mean she's above the law. NOBODY in America is above the law. As for those on here who say Lindsay's parents should've whooped her: How do you know she wasn't whooped/spanked as a child? For all we know Dina & Michael probably DID spank Lindsay as a child; they probably didn't work for her. Like time-outs, spankings don't work for everybody. I'm not White, but I'm not gonna buy the whole 'White people don't spank their kids' crap because they do spank their kids! I was spanked by a White person when I was a child (my Kindergarden teacher).
She needs this, awful as it might sound. She has been out of control for a very long time. Her mother has not done her well. Her parents should have done exactly what Britney Spears had done. How could her mother stand in the background and watch her daughter make a foul out of herself. Constantly falling, looking smashed all the time etc.,
somebody that was born with a great gift from god, i guest that she will learn her lesson, she will have some time to think about her life and where it will be going, good luck lindsay
Watching her cry was wonderful. Go to jail you pathetic loser.
Oh and @ Delfina.... she is not a "horrible person".... she has an illness and she needs help. And she is surrounded by people who just don't give a damn about anything except her money making potential... including her sorry ass mother!