While actress Lindsay Lohan still claims that she never took anything from a Venice jeweler intentionally earlier this year, she entered a no contest plea to a misdemeanor theft charge on Wednesday morning. The Los Angeles Times reports that the actress didn't even have to show up to court to plead no contest. Instead, Lohan's criminal defense attorney appeared at the LAX Airport Courthouse to enter the plea on her behalf.
Once again, it looks like Lohan has managed to avoid more jail time for her criminal behavior with this case. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner put Lohan on three years of probation and ordered her to attend shoplifting counseling for the theft conviction.
Yet with the no contest plea to the theft charge, Lohan was found to be in violation of her probation in connection with a 2007 DUI conviction. This probation violation resulted in a 120-day jail sentence and 480 hours of community service.
So, perhaps Lohan isn’t getting off too easy for the theft. As we reported in an earlier blog post, the actress was initially charged with a felony for walking out of a Venice jewelry store while wearing a gold necklace that she had not paid for. However, Judge Sautner reduced the felony theft charge down to a misdemeanor, saying that Lohan had already received a great deal of punishment for her DUI conviction.
We’ll see if Lindsay Lohan is able to follow the terms of her probation this time around and if she’ll be able to stay out of trouble in the future. As it is, a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spokesman has stated that Lohan will probably only have to spend 71 days behind bars with good behavior.
Related Resources:
- Find a Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney (FindLaw)
- Shoplifting - Criminal Law (FindLaw)
- Lindsay Lohan Felony Grand Theft Over Stolen Necklace (FindLaw’s Celebrity Justice Blog)
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