Lohan gets plea deal for DUIs

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Lindsay Lohan reached a plea deal Thursday on misdemeanor drunken driving and cocaine charges that calls for her to spend one day in jail, serve 10 days of community service and complete a drug-treatment program.

She was also placed on 36 months’ probation, is required to complete an 18-month alcohol education program, pay hundreds of dollars in fines and must complete a three-day county coroner program in which she’ll visit a morgue and talk to victims of drunken drivers.

“She’s getting what everyone else would get,” Deputy District Attorney Danette Meyers said after an hourlong hearing before Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge H. Chester Horn Jr.

If Lohan were to be convicted of another DUI, she would receive a mandatory 120-day jail sentence, Meyers said.

Lohan’s publicist did not immediately return an e-mail seeking comment about the charges.

Charges

Lohan was charged earlier in the day with seven misdemeanors stemming from two drunken-driving arrests in the last four months. More serious felony drug charges were not filed, prosecutors said, because tests showed there wasn’t enough cocaine on her to warrant them.

Attorney Blair Berk entered pleas on Lohan’s behalf: she pleaded guilty to two counts of being under the influence of cocaine; no contest to two counts of driving with a blood-alcohol level above 0.08 percent and one count of reckless driving. Two counts of driving under the influence were dropped.

Lohan was arrested May 26 in Beverly Hills and on July 24 in Santa Monica. In each incident, the amount of cocaine tested was below the 0.05 grams required for felony charges, according to the district attorney’s office.

Each of Lohan’s arrests were followed by trips to rehab.