Lindsay Lohan out on $75,000 bail, pending trial
Lindsay Lohan is out on bail, but her troubles are far from over.
The actress was hauled into a Los Angeles County jail on Friday after a judge found her in violation of her probation for a previous drunk-driving offense. She spent nearly five hours in custody, leaving at 9:20 p.m. after $75,000 bail was posted, L.A. Now reports.
The short stint at Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood came after L.A. County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner ruled that Lohan had violated her probation when she failed to return a $2,500 necklace to a Venice jewelry store. Sautner noted that even if the necklace was taken accidentally, Lohan didn't attempt to return it until after she heard about a police search warrant.
As punishment for the parole violation, Lohan was sentenced to 120 days in jail and 480 hours of community service at a downtown women's center and the Los Angeles County morgue. The actress has said she will appeal the sentence.
A bail bondsman reportedly posted the cash for the "Mean Girls" star, TMZ reports.
Sautner ordered the 24-year-old, who is due back in court May 11 for a hearing, to stand trial on the theft charge in June. On the upside, the judge dropped the charge from a felony to a misdemeanor, which means Lohan would face a year or less behind bars if convicted.
Meanwhile, prosecutor Danette Meyers said she hoped to get Sautner's charge-reduction overturned. "The judge abused her discretion in this case," Meyers told Times reporter Andrew Blankstein. "It was a felony filing because the defendant was on probation. ... She has violated on numerous occasions ... the evidence was incredibly strong."
This latest wave of legal trouble comes on the heels of recent Lohan casting news. She will play Kim Gotti in the upcoming John Gotti biopic "Gotti: Three Generations," starring John Travolta.
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Photo: Lindsay Lohan arrives for a hearing at the Airport Courthouse in Los Angeles on Friday. Credit: Phil McCarten / Reuters
Lindsy has received to many breaks. She has shown she is not interested in being a law abiding citizen. She needs to go to jail for a long time. Hows 5 years in prison sound Lindsy?
Posted by: G | Apr 23, 2011 at 03:39 PM
When our kids were little we went to see Freaky Friday and enjoyed Miss Lohan and could stop thinking what a great clean cut kid. Well, that was a long time ago and now look. It really is a sad statement on "our" society as a whole. Certainly, we all make mistakes, we all can lose our way and maybe its true sometimes our parents do screw us up some but we still have to accept our positions in society and learn to be responsible members or risk what Miss Lohan is facing. We feel sorry for her and for any kid who screws up, and hope she can get her act together. She should pay her debt to society and not be treated any differently than any other twenty something who has brought the law down on themselves.
Lindsey we hope you can pull herself up by your bootstraps and find the courage and integrity down inside yourself to do it. All of us can get back on track. The question is; Are you going to step up to that mirror and say enough is enough?
Posted by: TWS | Apr 23, 2011 at 03:45 PM
The judges Lohan goes before are a bunch of ridiculous clowns...she needs to go before a true professional like Casey Anthony's Judge Perry...the Hollywood judges are probably paid off.....by Michael and Dina.......
Posted by: Jack | Apr 23, 2011 at 03:49 PM
Please, please, please, judge! Order her to *stay* in the jail and serve the full sentence this time so we will have some peace from news of this kind!
Posted by: A Reader | Apr 23, 2011 at 05:05 PM
This woman is an embarrassment to the U.S. legal system and should be put away (prison or mental facility) without publicity.
Posted by: C. Vohn | Apr 24, 2011 at 09:41 AM
Wow, its unreal the wasted money she has had to give to get her out on bail. With $75k I would have paid off all my debt, bought a new car, and still had money left over to spend on maybe some new clothes and new shoes, and the rest put it in savings for a rainy day. Its just sad, so many people who are daily struggling to make ends meet, and here she just drops $75k like it's nothing.
Posted by: Max | Apr 24, 2011 at 10:21 PM