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"Experts believe Lohan may get 180 days in jail"
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Lindsay Lohan’s best bet for avoiding jail time is to go back into rehab yet again and remove herself from a high-flying party lifestyle — if not, she could be facing up to six months behind bars, legal observers said Wednesday.
Lohan, 21, was less than two weeks out of a recovery program and was voluntarily wearing an alcohol-monitoring device when she was arrested Tuesday in Santa Monica for investigation of misdemeanor driving both under the influence and with a suspended license, and felony cocaine possession.
Her lawyer, Blair Berk, has said she had a “relapse” and was receiving medical care at an undisclosed location.
A call to Lohan’s publicist was not returned Wednesday.
The actress completed more than six weeks in rehab less than two weeks ago, and had checked into another recovery clinic in January.
Over the weekend, she was photographed at a party in a pink bikini, with the monitoring device on her ankle.
That behavior won’t cut it anymore and neither will spa-style clinics, said Barry Gerald Sands, a Century City defense attorney who’s also a certified drug and alcohol counselor.
“Whatever you have done in the past, do a 360-degree turn and go the other way,” Sands said Wednesday. “She has to change her alleged friends, people sharing or selling her drugs. She has to lead a clean and sober life.
“Silk-sheet recovery homes don’t do the job.”
Rehab rather than jail
If Lohan is charged with a crime, she could ask a judge to order her to remain in rehabilitation while she awaits trial, Sands said.
A “recovery team” should be in place that includes doctors and addiction specialists who can give the judge alternatives to jail. And if she is convicted, the rehab time would count against whatever jail sentence is issued, Sands said.
Lohan has never been convicted of a drug or alcohol crime and judges routinely place first-time DUI offenders on probation rather than behind bars. However, Lohan’s case could be complicated because she also was arrested for investigation of felony DUI in Beverly Hills on Memorial Day after her Mercedes-Benz crashed into a curb.
That case was submitted to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office last week and is being reviewed, spokeswoman Jane Robison said.
If she is convicted of two felonies in the two cases, she might be eligible for 18 months or more in state prison but such a sentence is unlikely, said Lawrence Taylor, a former Los Angeles prosecutor who runs one of the nation’s top DUI defense law firms.
“Our prisons are packed already,” he said. “We don’t need some recreational (drug) users with a small amount of coke with a clean record.”
Paris case puts pressure on prosecutors, judges
On the other hand, Lohan probably will have to do some time in county jail simply because prosecutors and judges saw the backlash when Paris Hilton was briefly allowed to serve her DUI sentence at home instead of jail.
“They’re going to see how sensitive everything was … Everything was being looked at with a microscope and broadcast to the entire world, literally,” Taylor said. “They saw what happened and judges do run for re-election, and deputy DAs are aware that their bosses run for re-election.”
Both sides would be interested in stalling a court case until the media frenzy ebbs but that is unlikely if the continued scrutiny of Paris Hilton is any signpost, Taylor said.
“Entertainment has become more important than information and the media is looking … for money. They’re looking for audience, they’re looking to give the public what they want,” he said.
That scrutiny means that Lohan, if convicted, probably will get some jail time regardless of whether it is warranted in her case, Taylor said.
“I would say this woman’s going to be doing at least 30 days” and perhaps as long as 180 days if she is convicted of two DUIs along with drug possession, Taylor said.
However, virtually all DUI cases are settled by plea agreements.
Looking for cracks in the case
If he were running the defense, Taylor said, his team of experts would reconstruct the traffic accident; seek out witnesses, videotapes and audio of the traffic stops; examine repair and usage records for police breath analysis machines; and look into any blood tests Lohan was given to detect drugs and check the qualifications of the officers who stopped her. Medical experts also would check to see if Lohan had some medical condition — say, diabetes — that can affect the tests.
“After a few months of hard work, you can find where all the cracks are — and there will be some,” Taylor said.
Then, “I would strongly suggest … that perhaps this woman needs rehab rather than a long stretch in jail.”
A prosecutor faced with possibly losing a case might agree, otherwise, Taylor said, “your much-cherished conviction rate is going to go down and your chances of promotion are going to go down.”
Taylor concedes that the type of defense that celebrities can afford is off-limits to the average DUI defendant — and that affects the severity of their sentencing.
“Are you saying does justice have a price? Absolutely. But the same is true of heart surgery,” Taylor said. “It’s not going to be the same cost and it’s not going to be the same result.”
All 50 states now have two statutory offenses[1]. The first is the traditional offense, variously called driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI), driving while intoxicated/impaired (DWI) or operating while intoxicated/impaired (OWI). The second and more recent is the so-called illegal per se offense of driving with a blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.08% (previously 0.10%) or higher. The first offense requires proof of intoxication, although evidence of BAC is admissible as rebuttably presumptive evidence of that intoxication; the second requires only proof of BAC at the time of being in physical control of a motor vehicle. An accused may be convicted of both offenses, but may only be punished for one.
It is also a criminal offense in all states to drive a vehicle while under the influence of drugs DUID, or under the combined influence of alcohol and drugs; the drugs themselves need not be illegal, but can be prescription or even over-the-counter. This offense requires evidence of impairment as a result of the drugs or drugs and alcohol, although some states have passed laws making driving with the mere presence of certain drugs a criminal offense.
Perez you are awesome, thanks for all the updates.best site ever!
if i had done that. i would have got a lot longer. She does the crime she should PAY THE PRICE BITCH! STAY IN JAIL and straighten your rich ass think your above the law attitude out!
Wouldn’t a 360 degree turnaround put her back right where she is… good advice. Nowonder she is so fucked up! Try a 180 and then start running
i guess her and papa lohan are finally gonna have something to talk about
With all of the freakin money these celebs make can't they hire a professional driver if they're going out to party???
I hope she pulls a Kate Moss. Now that would be STAR POWER! I'm beginning to like this biatch.
So Sad….
Isn't she rich enough to hire a driver so she can stay out of trouble? She has assistants that make decisions for her, why can't she have someone to chauffer her around?
I think that LL is another Drew Barrymore all over, she migth help her go and talk to her experience with Drugs and alcohol.
Lohan is totally lost she's destroing her career, and fans at some point will stop suporting her becouse all her careless of her ouw life.
She's a bad example for teens, and she used to be a role medel…
I really hope she get's her feet on the ground and start using her brains, if she really is as inteligent as everione sais…
Otherwise From teen hero to Zero…
Sorry for my english im spanish…
yes she should go to jail for her crimes, but trash talking is probably not appropriate.
lindsay is an ADDICT/ALCOHOLIC which is a serious disease. she doesn't just need rehab… that is isn't the answer. she needs a 12 step program (preferrably AA) and a willingness to change which can only come from her. rehabs get people on the road to recovery… they do not "cure" you of the disease. we need to just leave her alone…
…calling her a "dumb twat"… would you call a sick person that??
Addiction doesn't just come and go … it's idiotic she was in rehab for what .. a month? C'mon now? And you think her being in those parties isn't any kind of threat PLEASE! If she's trying to sober herself up .. she needs to take initiative. She's not only addicted to alcohol and sex. SHES ADDICTED TO HER LIFESTYLE.
I woke up today thinking that what if all this hoopla and show is to get more publicity for her most recent film which opens up tommorow? I don't put anything past the powers that be to make this a great publicity stunt….
What LL needs is to move out of LA and move to a state that has no good night life like Illinois or Wisconsin…she will be clean before she knows it..
I think she should serve the full 6 years ! I like Lindsay - but she needs to grow up before she dies of an overdose.
She claims the coke they found in her pants pocket wasn't hers - becuz the pants she was wearing wasn't hers - whose were they? And why wasn't she wearing her own pants?????
its 180 degrees, dumba$$
paris had a better mug shot
Her offenses are a lot worse than what Paris was charged with. They will be forced to give Lohan at least the minimum jail time Paris had, or else look like hypocrites. Lohan has not one but two DUI's, a driving with suspended license charge, and a FELONY cocaine possession charge. She is going to jail. I guarantee she will get jail time. I'm so sick of celebs going off to rehab at 5 star hotel-like facilities. And they are obviously bullshit because she got drugs from others in there. Ugh.
Does Barry Sands know something we don't? Like, if you make a 360 degree turn aren't your right back where you started? Seems like that's exactly the kind of advice she wants - LOL. Dumbass… it's a 180 degree turn.
Lindsay, the number one person in your life is you, and if you don't take care of yourself, you will not make 22. There are so many people out there who do not want anything from you than to get some help, find out who you are, and live. You are in our thoughts and prayers…
"A 360 degree turn"… so just do the same thing she's been doing???
Yeah right - she'll get a day or two (at most) and probation. I wish she'd get more time in jail, just like Paris. But, I bet that she'll just get a slap on the wrist.
I am so fed up with these celebs getting away with crap. If you want to drink and to drugs, I could care less. But, once you get behind the wheel, you need to go to jail. I hope that Lindsay and Nicole both have to spend the next few months behind bars.
i've ALWAYS hated lindsay, i even find it hard to watch the movies she was in as a kid because i know what a stupid, self-serving bitch she turned out to be. this is what alan arkin meant when he said he hoped abigail breslin wouldn't win an oscar. i say get lindsay, joe francis, and all the other young pieces of shit and send them to an island of debauchery where they can all smoke, snort and rape each other to death.
shes going to jail
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GOOD. I hope she goes to jail for a long time. Or dies.
The Bitch did it so throw her ass in jail already and be done with it!!
It is George Bush's fault.
It will probably end up being 180 minutes… not days.
I'm a mother to three kids and I have NO sympathy for Lindsay or Dina. Well, I guess I have more sympathy for Lindsay if I had to choose.
Dina, you are a pathetic nutcase with a huge victim/martyr complex; the more you say this stupid delusional shit, the more your daughter is going to act out. Yes, Dina, YOU are Lindsay's problem. YOU.
Dina, YOU are driving your daughter to kill herself. You are an enabler and CLEARLY a narcissist; at one point, yes, I'm sure your ex-husband was an issue (and YOU — I'm sure were the same victim/martyr/enabler you are today), but YOU YOU YOU YOU YOU YOU YOU YOU YOU YOU are the issue NOW.
Lindsay needs like 3 months in jail just so she cant talk to her stupid, crazy, incompetent mother every day.
Dina, this is your future: you're going to end up alone with 3 or 4 estranged kids once they grow up enough to realize you are a crazy nutjob who exploited them ever chance you could get.
look all i know is that she looks really good even in her MUG SHOT lol.
i feel badd for her but she shouldn't be doing ridiculous things. she's a celebrity everything she is doing is being watched by everyone…
NOT SLICK LINDSAY even though i love your stuff… NOT SLICK NOT SLICK AT ALL….. thats totally embarassing
Lindsay just needs to snap out of this and clean up or else her career is gone!
3 Words:
BETTY FORD CENTER!
Hey everybody screws up and hits a low point in their lives. Too bad she had to crash in the public eye. And really, who cares abut Lindsay Lohan or any one else?? If they all dissappeared tomorrow the world would still turn.
These people (Paris, Lindsay, Nicole) should be made an example of not taken as a joke. Teenagers take lead from Hollywood starlets and think that the law is to be made a mockery of. It's all fun and games until some gets killed or worse, kills an civilian.
UMMMMMMMMMMMMM THAT WOULD BE THE BEST DAY EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so what this guy is saying money can buy you any thing.i have done jail time for possession before and have 4 years clean today because of the jail time i did.i really dont think that ms. lohan is taking her problem seriously enough and rehab has proved to be ineffective for her.if any judge with there right mind could see that.i think she needs to go to jail for 180 days like any one els that would be facing charges that she has.she needs to think what kind of message she is sending to people who are struggling with addiction
Britney's next! Can't wait!
Looks like now she has to turn a 540 to get back to the right direction…she already did 360, so she owes us 180 more…just hope she doesn't miss the mark and turn a full 720, because that will probably mean manslaughter on top of her third dui…just sayin…
i love you lindsay and i believe in you… those werent your drugs… its a very ugly complot against you… we love you and we hope you will not step a foot in jail never… blessings to you and your mother… she is a beatiful person too…
If you do a 360 degree turn won't you be going in the same direction??? STUPID!!!
she deserves to go to jail. they sent paris hilton to jail. who gives a crap if shes a celebrity. everyone needs to be treated the same. rehab wont do anything for her anymore.
Bull Shit! Throw the whore in jail, toss the key, and let her get gang raped for years to come.
She'll probably be able to handle the slammer better than her pal Paris— judging from her roots (dad)
none of us "little people" would get away with this shit, and so what if the jails are full?
Until people realise that they WILL ACTUALLY BE PUNISHED for breaking the law they will continue to do it because they know fuck all will happen.
She's leaving on a jet plane -
Don't know when she'll be back again -
rich kids and their infinity pools.. she deserves to go to jail.. HOW HARD IS IT TO GET A FREAKING DRIVER??????
Jail might be the only thing to get her to stop drugging. Jail is better than overdosing.
People this is a disease. Frankly I thought the next report on her would be reporting her dead. Been there done that…..it is a life long struggle to stay sober when you have an addiction…jail might be the wake up call she needs…..but jail does not treat the problem….give me a break…feed some homeless, recycle, leave this girl alone and get a life…….
This girl needs serious, (not pampered spa) drug and alcohol treatment and jail time before she kills herself or some innocent person or persons. Her entire family needs counseling and those poor younger siblings should be placed in foster care. The mother is a wanna be girlfriend who needs to give up trying to be her best friend and get a grip on her lifestyle as well. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree!! Send her ass to jail!!!
She is an ignorant imature person. If she was smart she would change the people she hangs out with and stay away from alcohol and drugs altogether!
“Whatever you have done in the past, do a 360-degree turn and go the other way,” Do a 180 360 puts you back to where you started
Did she get arrested for DUI driving home from Rehab?…lolololol…sure seems so- dumb girl…
I really do feel that Australia has it right when it comes to drink driving laws.
You can be breath tested at any point, none of this touch your nose crap- its compulsary. if you are on a probabionary licence (p plates) you blood alcohol level MUST be %0. no excuses, zero tolerence, when you have had your p plates for 3 years you are allowed to have a level not exceeding %.05.
any thing opver will result in loss of lisence, and an interlock device must be installed in your car when you get it back for a period of time, you have to give a breatho reading to start the car and while driving or the car will lock you out. at the end of this time all the readings you have entered into the breatho are recorded and you go before a judge- too many bad ones and you face jail time.
zero tolerence. I lost someone very close to me because of drunk driving. driving makes you not just responsible for you and those in your car, but for everyone around your car.
send the dumb bitch to jail, and america? take a note from australia. sometimes its a good idea to give up some of your rights for the saftey of more than yourself.
if she does not seve jail time the odds are overwhelming she will do it all again ~ then there won't be any ifs ands and buts ~ she might easily go to prison ~ there is a BIG dif between jail and prison
oh and also- if she were in australia, she would definatly be in jail. driving drunk with a suspended licence is a serious crime. 3 strikes and your WAY out. dont even get me strated on four.
she doesnt need rehab, state prison would be perfect, she would see where her life is headed while being fucked with a broomstick.
If you do a 360 u end up at the same place dude, maybe yo u ment a 180? I can tell he is not bright enough to be anything BUT a lawyer hehehe and for MSNBC none the less.
i'll be extremely surprised if she even does as much time as paris did. all you have to do is show up to court on time, & show the judge the respect he deserves. 5 years of probation & 300 hours of community service is my prediction. i'm sick of hearing about this already though!!!
Her career has progressed from
Herbie Fully Loaded to
LINDSAY FULLY LOADED.
Rash Manly therashreport.com
Her "friends" are a huge part of the problem. I would never allow a friend to drink or do drugs right out of rehab, let alone get in a car and drive afterwards. The people around her will never tell her "NO" or "stop" for fear she will drop them as a friend and/or cut them off financially. Her friends are all Hollywood wannabees and don't give a sh*t what happens to her. SAD.
“Whatever you have done in the past, do a 360-degree turn and go the other way,” Sands said Wednesday……….obviously this guy's opinion doesn't mean shit. Do a 360? So, turn arounf and do the same thing. That's what she just did, DUMBASS!
This is the case of a "to much to soon"next time she will be expose for and overdose or probably in a freak accident because of it.
see this is what pisses me off. a black guy can get caught on the corner with a nickel bag of weed and he'll go to jails for a year and a girl like Lindsay Lohan puts lives in danger by driving drunk, with COCAINE and she's going to get a suspended sentence served at some rehab facility that probably serves mai tai's by the pool.
Girlfriend needs to go to jail.
she needs so go to jail homez
damn, perez stop milking the lindsay story so much.
She needs to learn from her mistakes, and sometimes that takes a person to hit bottom. Hopefully she serve some time and end up a wiser person who gets help for her addiction.
shanna - I couldn't agree with you more. In general, celebs get better treatment than all "normal" people. But, African Americans, and other minorities, get especially harsh penalties. It pisses me off!!!
think she'll wear panties in jail? hope she really gets 6 months!!!
normal people would do the time in jail. Why can't the famous people? do the crime do the time.
she's not only a druggie, she's a DUMB one at that.
throw her in the slammer. Bertha will LOVE to have some blonde ass to lick.
cheers!
Geee, I´m glad I am swedish, where we get the same, surgery aswell as punishment. Or, as much as the human nature alowes that is. Your countrys justice system aswell as health care sucks.
Her mom should be in jail right along with Lindsay. Her mom is a selfish, neurotic enabling nut!
She pimps lindsay out since a young age –so she (dina) could be famous and rich! Now, lindsay has to deal with all the issues that come with fame.
All her mom does is excuse Lindsays actions. So pathetic.
what a sad comment on our legal system … if you have the money, you can do whatever you want and then buy an excuse.
Here's the bottom line. ENOUGH. You are not "entitled" to drive drunk and high on the streets that myself and my chidren are on. Go away, to rehab, to jail, wherever. Just go away. You were blessed at one time with talent that could carry you. Not anymore.
Jail is the best rehab. REHAB rehab is a vacation.
I would feel sorry for her if she actually took some responsibility for her actions rather than DENY DENY DENY…..she deserves whatever she gets
fuck that, get all cokeheads off the street. famous or not. i have no respect for anyone who puts that shit up their nose.
Here is the bottom line, Go away. Go to jail. Go to rehab, sure. But to Jail is where you better go. Being a celeb, does not entitle this fool to drive drunk & high on the same streets as my family. You Lindsay, are a fool.
Are stupid celebrities trying to turn jail into the next fad?!?! Give her jail time and not the kind Paris Hilton got, that wasn't jail!!!
lindsay lohan is not just some recreational drug user. she is a drug and alcohol abuser who could end up being a murderer, becuz if she keeps driving under the influence, she is gonna kill some innocent person. She needs to go to jail. there is video of her on youtube running away from the scene of the accident when she crashed into a tree. she is definitely guilty.
If Lindsay follows this guy's such sound advice, she'll be right where she started! 360 degrees is a circle!
“Whatever you have done in the past, do a 360-degree turn and go the other way,” Sands said Wednesday. “
180 degree turn dumb ass.
If she doesn't get jail, then if I were Paris Hilton I'd be pissed! She needs to be scared straight and do some jail time and non-Hollywood rehab classes while she's locked up. The people around her seem to feel that she will be going to rehab, but that coke whore is going to jail!!!
Okay..I cant stand this girl at all!I think that she is is a stupid girl that thinks she can do what-ever she wants.Forget REHAB!(Thats not working ofr her)She only goes there when she gets in troulble and then when she is there she is causing pronlems for the other people in the center (who are there to get HELP)
She needs to get whatever is coming to her and I will be happy if she gets the 180 day in JAIL!!!!(I think she needs to get the full time and thats 8 years in PRISON!!(Next time she might KILL someone)
Thanks…
PEREZ you ROCK!!!
Lindsey needs Jail time
Coke may not seem serious in the celebrity world but come on. If I were arrested with coke in my possesion twice in three months I would be doing jail time.
She is only 21 and already a Coke head. Hey Dina time to stop making excuses for your girl. get your head out of your ass she needs help
She's an angry drunk too! Gotta watch those big time. I know many peeps with DUIs. The only reason ya'll are here is cuz it's like a train wreck - that's why I'm here. Gawkers! LOL Ya'll just need some excitment. Well hope you're getting it and it's worth it.
JAIL JAIL JAIL. Paris- one DUI and driving on a suspended license, got 23 days. LLo- 2 DUI's, drugs, accidents, etc…. Jail for years please. This girl is a wreck.
I am so sick of therse celebrities thinking that that they can get away with everything…I think that she deserves to sit in time-out(jail) and think about what she has done..bad little girl.
linsday seems like a shitty person with or without drugs. the way she acted when she started acting again, fighting hilary duff over a guy hanging with paris hilton. drew was a good person with awful parents, but lindsay is just trash.
I hope she goes to jail and gets her Fire crotch torn apart by the bull dykes.
"…do a 360-degree turn and go the other way,” HAHAHAHAH she'll be right back where she started retard!!
Tell the so called expert Barry Sands that when you do a 360 turn you will still be heading in the same direction.
180 degrees, not 360 degrees…idiot!
I say jailtime is the BEST for this BRAT! Obvisouly Re-hab didn't do a thing for her! So why go back the next step before she kills someone never mind herself, is JAIL! I really hope they send her for the full 180 days!
I think dina lohan needs to be shoved into that cell with her! Who knows dina could be just as bad as lindsay!
poor thing? poor girl? which ever one of you think that, well why dont you take by example of your coke head princess and snort a line. Lindsay will never learn. Even before all this crap came out she was doing lines of coke off my table at The Box, NYC. My advice to Lo HO, is snort a couple grams , drink a bottle and throw yourself into traffic , your pathetic.
Everyone should call/send letters to the judge demanding she get the full SIX YEARS like anyone else would. This bitch could have killed someone and she's so arrogant she doesn't even care. Teach her a lesson in the STATE prison. It worked for Robert Downey Jr., got him off drugs.
And Boycott the network that gives Oranga Oprah a tv show. It's disgusting to put her on the tv.
they should just throw her in jail already..they should have done it since the get go
She's crazy! needs lots of help!
As a PROUD white person I am offended by the behavior of the likes of Britney and Lindsay. They are an embarassment to our race and not representative of how most white people are so please stop with the "whitetrash" comments. Most white people are responsible and hard working. These idiots are spoiled brats that don't know what the word NO means.