[url]http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/04/23/california.lindsay.lohan.case/index.html?hpt=T2[/url]
[quote]Los Angeles (CNN) -- Lindsay Lohan spent five hours in custody before posting a $75,000 bond Friday evening after a judge sentenced her to 120 days in jail for violating her drunk driving probation with her arrest for stealing a necklace.
Her release from Los Angeles County's Lynwood Correctional Facility capped a long day that included a victory for the actress when the judge reduced the felony grand theft charge to a misdemeanor.
Lohan will remain free on bond while her lawyer appeals the jail sentence for the probation violation, but she must immediately start serving 480 hours of community service, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner said,
The community service, includes 360 hours at a downtown Los Angeles women's center, which Judge Sautner suggested might cause Lohan to behave better after seeing "how truly needy women and women who have fallen on real hard times have to live."
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She must complete another 120 hours of community service at the Los Angeles County morgue.
The judge ruled Friday that the necklace theft case against Lohan will go forward to trial, but the felony charge was reduced to a misdemeanor.
"I'm going to give her an opportunity," Sautner said.
Sautner did not buy the defense argument that Lohan accidentally walked out of a Venice, California, jewelry store wearing a necklace that later appeared around her neck in photographs taken five days later.
"If in fact it was an accident, she could have called the store back," Sautner said.
Defense attorney Shawn Holley argued that Lohan was busy and scattered when she was at the store and absent-mindedly walked out with the necklace.
"It's undisputed that Ms. Lohan walked out of the store with the necklace on," Holley said. The prosecution must show she had "specific intent to permanently deprive the store of that necklace."
While Holley conceded that Lohan "did not rush to return the necklace," but it just "makes her not a very considerate or courteous person."
"The fact that she may not have been a courteous or considerate person doesn't make her a thief," Holley said.
"I see the intent here and the level of brazenness to say 'Let me see what I can get away with here,' " Sautner said.
A police detective testified that Lohan's assistant handed the necklace to a police officer after learning through a website posting that police had obtained a search warrant hours earlier to search for it in her home.
Prosecutor Danette Meyers argued that "it doesn't take a rocket scientist" to realize Lohan returned the necklace to police because she knew her home was about to be searched.
Lohan's trial date was set for June 3, but she must return to court for a hearing May 11, the judge said.
A misdemeanor could still result in up to a year in prison for Lohan.
Before delivering the good news to Lohan about the reduction of the charge, the judge addressed her much-publicized misbehavior.
"She thumbs her nose at the court," Sautner said, referring to an incident with another judge last year. "She walks into court with 'F U' on her fingernails. I don't know what that means unless it has 'I am' before it."
The jeweler who accused Lohan of stealing the gold and diamond necklace testified Friday that she had not gotten any money from selling the security camera video of the actress in her store.
Kamofie and Company owner Sofia Kamen was the second witness called by the prosecution in the preliminary hearing.
Holley used the the store's licensing of the video, for a reported $40,000, to question Kamen's motives in accusing Lohan of theft.
All of the money from the video licensing went to publicist Christopher Spencer, who Kamen said she fired last month because he was negotiating deals for the store that she was not interested in, she testified.
Kamen said that she realized the necklace was missing 10 minutes after the actress left the store last January.
She wasn't closely watching Lohan, even though there was another incident four days earlier in which the actress almost walked out wearing a diamond earring.
"We thought it was an accident," Kamen said. "We weren't thinking that she would take it."
The first prosecution witness was Tinelli Comsooksri, a store employee who was working the day of the earring incident.
"She was covering the earring that she still left on with her hair," Comsooksri said. She stopped Lohan as she was walking out, Comsooksri said.
As prosecutor Meyers held the infamous necklace, now known as "People's Exhibit 2," Kamen testified that it was priced at $2,500 although it cost the store only $850. She explained that retail jewelers routinely triple the wholesale price.
The value of the necklace was a crucial issue for Lohan for the felony grand theft charge to be reduced to a misdemeanor. Shoplifting offenses are charged as petty theft if the property taken is valued at less than $950.
Lohan has been in court nine times in the past year, mostly for hearings related to probation violations for her 2007 drunk driving case.
She did a short stint in jail last year, but she also checked into substance abuse rehab twice under court order[/quote]
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some sick animals need to be put down for their own good.
I lol'd fucking hard. Not even one day. Not even a day of that 120 day sentence. And nobody will be surprised.
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In other news, the sky is still blue, the GOP is still retarded, and Muammar Gaddaffi is still a dickwad.
[quote]"I'm going to give her an opportunity," Sautner said.[/quote]
WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT, does she really look like she is actually going to listen to anything short of a long term prison sentence?
If I was her I wouldnt "give her an oppertunity"
Let the bitch sit in Jail, celebs shouldnt be treated better then us with this kind of shit.
Good, celebrities don't deserve to be in jail. They're above the law.
Wasn't the arrest JUST posted 6 hours ago?
I want to go to law school and become a judge just so I can see a celebrity's face when they get a proper sentence
[QUOTE=Artyom;29370304]Wasn't the arrest JUST posted 6 hours ago?[/QUOTE]
Yea, bitch was in the jail for less then 24 hours before she cried her way out.
Why can't she just be stripped of her celebrity status? I know other celebrities have done far worse, but come on man. With all the attention she's been giving she must be creaming her pants underneath those tears. Strip her of her celebrity status and send her to prison. Not jail, [b]prison[/b]. Sure, she might not be rehabilitated in the long-run, but she needs to learn her lesson, not set loose on another club or liquor store.
[QUOTE=TAU!;29370415]Why can't she just be stripped of her celebrity status? I know other celebrities have done far worse, but come on man. With all the attention she's been giving she must be creaming her pants underneath those tears. Strip her of her celebrity status and send her to prison. Not jail, [b]prison[/b]. Sure, she might not be rehabilitated in the long-run, but she needs to learn her lesson, not set loose on another club or liquor store.[/QUOTE]
Honestly, I think she's repeated enough to put her pretty high up on the list of celebs who need to be punished like a normal civilian.
I mean come on, she can post her bail but can't pay for some fucking jewelry?
Felonies being downgraded to misdemeanors are common occurrence, even for non-celebrities. You guys are trippin.
[QUOTE=Pal13;29370456]Felonies being downgraded to misdemeanors are common occurrence, even for non-celebrities. You guys are trippin.[/QUOTE]
Do you even know how many times she's been picked up for violating probation?
[QUOTE=CjienX;29370469]Do you even know how many times she's been picked up for violating probation?[/QUOTE]
No, but the probation violations are irrelevant to the jewelry theft case.
[QUOTE=Lebowski;29370130]some sick animals need to be put down for their own good.[/QUOTE]
Need a "creepy" rating
She can serve her time in my house.
why do celebrities even have special sentences anyways
[QUOTE=Pal13;29370527]No, but the probation violations are irrelevant to the jewelry theft case.[/QUOTE]
The first fucking line of the article:
[quote]violating her drunk driving probation with her arrest for stealing a necklace.[/quote]
And how exactly is it irrelevant? She was on probation and then she broke the law. Again.
Not to mention this isn't the first time she shoplifted either.
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[QUOTE=Fire Kracker;29370544]why do celebrities even have special sentences anyways[/QUOTE]
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Shouldn't they use the fact that she payed for her $75,000 bail, but not the necklace, be used against her?
[QUOTE=CjienX;29370551]And how exactly is it irrelevant? She was on probation and then she broke the law. Again.[/QUOTE]
How exactly is that relevant?
[QUOTE=Pal13;29370622]How exactly is that relevant?[/QUOTE]
Do you even know what probation is?
[quote]pro·ba·tion/prōˈbāSHən/Noun
1. The release of an offender from detention, [b]subject to a period of good behavior under supervision.[/b]
2. The process or period of testing or observing the character or abilities of a person in a certain role, for example, a new employee.[/quote]
[QUOTE=CjienX;29370639]Do you even know what probation is?[/QUOTE]
No shit. But what does this:
[QUOTE=Pal13;29370456]Felonies being downgraded to misdemeanors are common occurrence[/QUOTE]
have to do with probation violation?
[QUOTE=Pal13;29370679]No shit. But what does this:
have to do with probation violation?[/QUOTE]
Uh, I dunno, maybe that she's a repeat offender that broke the law while on probation? Downing the punishment the FIRST time is acceptable. After that it's just fucking bullshit.
Put her back.
[QUOTE=CjienX;29370854]Uh, I dunno, maybe that she's a repeat offender that broke the law while on probation? Downing the punishment the FIRST time is acceptable. After that it's just fucking bullshit.[/QUOTE]
DUI's are relatively small offenses, and a misdemeanor is still punishment, wtf.
I almost forget about here ! Now for more gossip.
[QUOTE=Pal13;29371037]DUI's are relatively small offenses, and a misdemeanor is still punishment, wtf.[/QUOTE]
You just don't get this at all, do you?
[QUOTE=Pal13;29371037]DUI's are relatively small offenses, and a misdemeanor is still punishment, wtf.[/QUOTE]
A DUI can lead to you pancaking pregnant women on the pavement. Small offense my ass.
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