| Lindsay Lohan had her day in court and managed to | | | | were not pressed since the levels found in her body |
| plea bargain in what critics claim is a case of justice | | | | did not warrant them.Lohan was sentenced to a 96 |
| miscarried. Charged on a misdemeanor of drunken | | | | hour jail term which is the mandatory minimum for a |
| driving and cocaine intake, the plea deal was made in | | | | second drunken driving offence. However she was |
| the judge chambers and Lohan managed to get off | | | | also given a 24 hour credit for hours already served |
| with a day in jail, 10 days in community service and | | | | and opted to complete an additional 10 days in |
| complete a drug rehab program. Lindsay has been | | | | community serve rather than go back to jail to |
| charged with a previous DUI and this was a repeat | | | | complete the balance of 48 hours behind bars. This is |
| charge which could easily have carried a more serious | | | | said to be an option available for all second time |
| sentence.Lindsay Lohan had confessed 'I am addicted | | | | drunken driving offenders. However she still has to |
| to alcohol and drugs,' the actress said in a | | | | serve 24 hours in the city or county jail. She is |
| statement.Lindsay Lohan was also placed under a 36 | | | | currently being treated at a residential rehabilitation |
| months probation in which she is required to complete | | | | center in Utah. She has to complete 30 days in-house |
| an 18 month alcohol education program, pay fines and | | | | for her mandatory treatment on the cocaine |
| a three day coroner program. The coroner program | | | | charges.Lindsay Lohan had been arrested on two |
| for Lindsay Lohan will see her visit the morgue and talk | | | | different occasions on May 26 in Beverly Hills and on |
| to victims of drunken drivers.Lindsay accepted she | | | | July 24 Santa Monica. Luckily, in each arrest, her |
| broke the law and did things she was ashamed of " I | | | | cocaine levels were found to be less than the .05 |
| broke the law and today I took responsibility by | | | | required to file charges on cocaine abuse. Lohan had |
| pleading guilty to the charges in my case," She also | | | | then been put on rehabilitation although she never kept |
| added that her life had become unmanageable | | | | her part of the bargain. Lindsay Lohan's case follows a |
| because she was addicted to alcohol and drugs," | | | | series of recent most famous celebrity DUI cases that |
| Lohan said in a statement released by publicist Leslie | | | | have resulted in jail time. Paris Hilton concluded her 23 |
| Sloane Zelnik.Deputy district attorney Danette Meyers | | | | days in jail after she was convicted of driving on a |
| claimed that Lindsay was getting what every one else | | | | suspended license while on probation for a DUI and |
| would after the hearing. The case was held in Los | | | | reckless driving case. Nicole Ritchie spent four days in |
| Angeles County Superior court by Judge H Chester | | | | jail from a December DUI arrest. She however hardly |
| Horn Jr.'s court room. Meyers also sounded the | | | | spent more than two hours in a women's jail.Former |
| warning that if Lindsay were to get another DUI rap, | | | | Paris Hilton attorney, Howard L. Weitzman said that |
| she would get 120-day jail sentence. If actress Lohan | | | | Lindsay Lohan seems to be doing the advisable thing |
| violates her probation in any way, she will face up to a | | | | by owning up to her mistakes, paying for them and |
| year on each of the drunken driving and cocaine | | | | doing the best to put her life back in track.Lohan had in |
| charges and a 90 day in the can on the reckless | | | | the May incident crashed her Mercedes-Benz into a |
| driving charge.Lohan had been charged earlier with 7 | | | | tree on Sunset Boulevard and fled the scene to seek |
| misdemeanors from two drunken -driving arrests in the | | | | treatment. A White powder found in Lohan's purse by |
| last 4 months. Serious felony charges on the cocaine | | | | Police was said to have been .04 grams of cocaine. |