PREACH IT! Team Lohan: No probation, no jail, no problem

Lindsay Lohan’s legal team is working hard to get the actress off of probation -- not because her probation is unfair, but because Lohan is likely to violate it again. And, you know, end up in jail.

"The longer Lindsay stays on probation, the increased chances that she will get in trouble because of problems staying compliant with the terms of her probation," a source with knowledge of the situation told Radar.

So, in other words, if she isn't on probation, she can't possibly violate it next time she gets busted. Hollywood logic, see.

Of course, Team Lohan plans to use savvier language when they make their arguments in court later this month -- probably some variation of she's-been-languishing-in-rehab-and-only-escaped-once-something-something-something.

That hearing is currently slated for Oct. 22.

— Leslie Gornstein

Photo credit: L.A. County Sheriff's Department / AFP / Getty Images

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Comments

[Jeff Thomas]

Keep Lindsay in rehab for another couple of months and keep her on probation WITH random drug tests for the next 2 years. THAT will keep her sober enough so she can become an "A list" movie star again. Lindsay will THANK Betty Ford later on in life for doing what they are doing for her now.

[CAT]

Here's one for ya! Take her off probation under the condition that she stays in rehab until 10/2011 if she leaves rehab before 10/2011 her probation is immediately back in play, revoked, and she is immediately taken into custody (no appearing before a judge) and has to begin a full 30 day jail sentence. After serving the 30 days in jail she immediately must return to The Betty for 1 year, no questions or objections allowed. If she leaves rehab again, same consequences are back in play......That will get her attention, hurt her in the wallet & hopefully straighten her out.

If this doesn't happen she will relapse, go out driving while high or drunk & end up killing someone here in So Cal, and that is a chance we So Cal folk no longer what to take!

Common' Lady Justice DO THE RIGHT THING!!!!!

[k]

Problem is, Lindsay doesn't take any of this seriously because she doesn't think she has a problem. Her lawyers are trying to get her off probation, not just because they know she'll just violate it repeatedly, but also because Lindsay herself considers the whole thing a nuisance.

See, on probation she can't party up to her personal standards if she can't drink, smoke and snort. So she asked her legal team to just get rid of the whole probation thing.

The Betty Ford Center has helped people from all walks of life, but they can't help someone who doesn't -- or won't -- admit to needing help.

[TW]

T.I breaks is probation with the same charge and gets sentenced to 11 months in prison, and will probably have to serve every second of it (Same with Plaxico Burress). But people like Paris Hilton, and Lindsey Lohan get sentenced to a month, and serve less than half of that month. WHERES THE JUSTICE THERE????