The troubled 'Mean Girls' actress plead ' no contest' to the jewelry theft case in which Lohan was accused of walking out of a Venice, California, store with a necklace valued at $2,500. Lohan had been sentenced to 120 days in jail as well as 480 hours of community service last month by Judge Stephanie Sautner for violating her probation from a 2007 drunk-driving charge. The judge ruled that Lohan had violated the terms of her probation in that case by wearing the gold necklace out of the store in January and failing to return it.
Of course Lohan was not present at court today, her lawyer entered a plea of no contest on behalf of the troubled actress Wednesday (May 11) in Los Angeles.
The bulk of the community service (360 hours) — which Lohan has already begun — will be done at the Downtown Women's Center, and the remaining 120 hours will be at the L.A. County Morgue. In a big break for Lohan, once she has completed the 60 days of community service, her probation in the original DUI case will be terminated and she may be allowed to serve the 120-day sentence at home with an electronic monitoring device on her ankle. However, she will now be on probation for three years on the theft charge.
Lohan is slated to turn herself in on Tuesday to face booking in the case, and at that time, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department will determine if she's eligible for home detention. Due to the overcrowding of the Los Angeles jail system, Lindsey's actual sentence may be a mere 17 days.
Court officials and Lohan's lawyer stressed that the actress did not get any special treatment, but rather the same consideration that anyone with her criminal history would have gotten.
Hopefully the starlet can begin to put her life and career back together soon.
REMEMBER this girl------------------------------------>
WHERE HAS SHE GONE????
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