Lindsay Lohan goes to jail — a few minutes late [poll]

After a bit of bookkeeping, Lindsay Lohan was taken into custody Tuesday in Judge Marsha Revel's court in Beverly Hills.

Lohan, who was due at 8:30 a.m., left home with only a few minutes to spare — news helicopters following the two black SUVs as they made their way through traffic, of course — and walked into the courtroom with attorney Shawn Chapman Holley a little more than 10 minutes late.

Now, we just made a bigger deal of that than Revel did; the judge moved things along, first clarifying for the record that Robert Shapiro had spoken with the court on Monday to say he would not be representing the actress. Holley made the point that Shapiro had never been Lohan's attorney of record at any time. 

Revel changed the turnaround time from jail to rehab from two days to 24 hours, and noted ...

... that, because she didn't know "exactly how long the jail will keep her" and "I can only impose the sentence," it was impossible to set a specific date for a probation status report.

The judge then ordered that no video or still images be taken of Lohan being cuffed and taken into custody, reminding all who were present that they'd be held in contempt if they dared to snap a shot in the courtroom.

"The defendent is now remanded into custody to serve her 90-day jail sentence," Revel said — and Lindsay was taken away.

With luck, LiLo's time in jail, guesstimated at three weeks behind bars, will be as straightforward and simple as Tuesday's surrender.

It'll have to be a lot of luck, however: Even as we typed this, paparazzi and others were jockeying for shots outside the courthouse and along La Cienega Boulevard as she was being transported to the Lynwood Correctional Facility.

— Christie D'Zurilla

Photos: Lindsay Lohan is showered with confetti by an onlooker as she arrives at the Beverly Hills Courthouse, top, on Tuesday morning for sentencing in a probation violation related to two 2007 DUI incidents. At right, Lohan in court. Credits: David McNew / Getty Images, top; Getty Images / pool, right.

Click and scroll to read how Lindsay Lohan wound up on the courthouse steps, including a detailed timeline of her arrests and dealings with the court, leading up to her court dates in May.

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Comments

[pat hawkins]

Lindsey's a Loser, a bad role model (if she ever was one to begin with) and only interested in her self. Not to mention that she has a bad family upbringing, but whatever, I'm sure she'll have her excuses for being the tramp loser that she is and I hope she get's mroe and more jail time until she becomes the unemployed loser actress she should become..

[bizzvanwa]

Why not send in Mel Gibson as her cellie to talk some sense into LiLo?

[Bo Tat]

Ohm mani padme hum.

[Wyakin Too]

Im disgusted with the way these actors/actresses are behaving. They think that the laws do not apply to them. If it was average Joe Citizen that did what these "stars" do the first time..........we would see jail time right off the bat.....and plenty of it.....but because they have money, and high profile laywers, they practically get away with murder.

[M.F. Stout]

Judge Revel is a patient human being. I would've found Lindsey in contempt for being late on the most important court date of her life. But it's good she showed. I figured she'd skip and we'd be following her down the 405 in a black SUV being chased by a hundred cop cars. I hope she chills out and freakin' grows up. And I hope the court lets her attorney move on too. The poor women doesn't need or deserve a client like this.

[BOB Roberts]

Send this BRAT to jail for a couple years. Spoiled rotten and if a movie company hires her and uses her for anything it won't be shown in this house ever. She and her mother are pigs and to think no one can do anything to her because of her status is bull. This girl needs a big lesson, like a close OD...her face shows drug use as well as her attitude. Some family, she needs to talk and listen to Robert Downey Jr. She can clean up her act one day and she will still be the pig she is today...

[Eric]

The deck has always been stacked against her. Both her parents are idiots, with Dina slightly edging out the Dad. She needs to do her time, clean up, and find a mentor. She is talented.

[Elle]

Lindsay really is handling this badly. Its time for her to be a big girl now and own up to her mistakes. Even if she doesn't think its fair, she should have some dignity and tell the press that she is ready to serve her sentence, and that she will learn and grow from this experience. Crying like a baby about how unfair it is only reinforces her negative image. If she expects to come out of this with any shred of a career left, she'll wise up to how she needs to present herself. She should be thankful people even care to watch her on the news. She is not bankable, hasn't come out with anything worth watching in years. Right now the only reason people are interested in her is to watch the trainwreck. She's hanging on by a thread, and if she were smart she'd use this attention to clean up and turn her life around.

[Jessie]

GROW UP LINDSAY!!! you are the only person who publicty shows that you think you deserve speacial treatment bc your a celebrity...o wait WASHED up celebrity. You reamber the Johnson girl that ended up dying...thats going to be you soon if you dont watch it.

[Mimi]

Lindsey went to most of her alcohol education classes. Why send hardworking people to jail? The woman needs medical help, and she deserves to receive that.

[Kim]

Yeah, but even though she's been doing things that are really bad, she doesn't really deserve to be shamed THAT much.

As some comments before said, she managed to go to all of her alcohol education classes.
She's trying her best.

I don't think we need that much hate towards her.
It's just that she needs to learn to grow up and accept what she's done.

That's something that she wasn't taught.
Probably.