Judge gives Lohan 30-day jail sentence

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES

A judge on Wednesday sentenced Lindsay Lohan to serve 30 days in jail for a probation violation.

Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner sentenced the actress for violating the terms of her release by being terminated from a community-service assignment at a women’s shelter.

The actress acknowledged she violated her probation.

Sautner imposed a complicated sentence on the actress, telling her that she will now have to perform all of her community service at the county morgue or risk serving an additional 270 days in jail.

The actress’ sentence will be shortened due to jail overcrowding.

The judge also ordered Lohan to continue undergoing counseling sessions and kept the actress on a short leash. The judge told Lohan she must report back to court in December, January, February and March for updates.

Lohan also will get a new probation officer that Sautner said she has ordered to report any violations directly to the court. If Lohan fails to comply with the new sentence, Sautner said she would immediately send the starlet to jail for the remaining 270 days of her sentence.

It will be Lohan’s fifth jail sentence since being arrested twice for drunken driving in 2007. The 25-year-old last served 35 days on house arrest on a four-month jail sentence.

Sautner revoked Lohan’s probation at a hearing nearly two weeks ago.

The judge had asked prosecutors to calculate how long of a jail term the actress would have to serve if she is formally found in violation of her probation for misdemeanor drunken-driving and theft cases.

Sautner has expressed exasperation with the actress and California’s budget-strapped jail system.

The “Mean Girls” star has been sent to jail, rehab, counseling and community service numerous times since being arrested twice for drunken driving in 2007. Her probation on that case is nearly over, but her release remains supervised after Lohan in May pleaded no contest to misdemeanor theft for taking a $2,500 necklace.