(CNS) Posted Wednesday
February 22, 2012– 11:00am
Lindsay Lohan received another glowing report from a
judge today for her performance on probation stemming from DUI and theft
cases, and her protracted legal troubles could come to an end next month if she
successfully completes her community service and therapy requirements.
"Miss Lohan, you're in the home stretch," Los Angeles Superior Court
Judge Stephanie Sautner told the 25-year-old actress during a brief hearing at
the Airport Branch Courthouse. "The probation officer is pleased with your
progress. You seem to be getting your life back on track and that's what we all
hoped for.
"It was never our goal to just put people in jail, we like to see ...
change, and I think we've all seen that," she said.
Lohan has one more court hearing scheduled for March 29. By that time,
she must complete 14 more days of community service at the county morgue and
five more therapy sessions.
If she meets those requirements, her probation stemming from a 2007 DUI
case in Beverly Hills will end on March 29, and her formal probation in a
Venice theft case will convert to summary probation, under which she would not
have to check in with a probation officer.
"That means, after March 29, all you have to do is obey all laws, stay
out of trouble, move on with your life," Sautner said.
Until that hearing, Lohan she is free to leave the state for work as
long as she notifies her probation officer, but she cannot leave California for
pleasure until she completes her community service and therapy sessions, the
judge said.
Lohan pleaded no contest May 11 to a misdemeanor grand theft charge
involving a necklace priced at $2,500 pilfered from a Venice jewelry store.
She was placed on three years probation and ordered to spend 120 days in
jail and complete the 480 hours of community service to which she had been
previously sentenced for violating her probation in the 2007 misdemeanor DUI
case.
Lohan was originally ordered to have her 480 hours of community service
completed by April 2012, with 360 hours at the downtown women's center and
another 120 hours at the county morgue. However, her attendance was so sporadic
at the Skid Row center last year that shelter officials terminated her from the
community-service program there.
That prompted Sautner to revoke the actress' probation. The judge
ordered her to spend 30 days in jail after Lohan admitted violating her
probation in the DUI and theft cases, but due largely to jail overcrowding, she
served only about five hours at the Century Regional Detention Facility in
Lynwood.
Sautner then ordered Lohan to perform all of her community service work
at the morgue. The judge laid out a strict schedule of probation work and
therapy sessions for Lohan, and so far the actress has met all of the judge's
requirements.
Lohan, the star of films such as "Mean Girls" and "Freaky Friday,"
is reportedly in line to portray the late Elizabeth Taylor in a new film.
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