Lindsay Lohan chastised by judge, has probation revoked
Lindsay Lohan has been escorted from a Los Angeles courtroom in handcuffs after a judge revoked the actress' probation for failing to complete her community service.
A frightened Lohan, who was on the verge of tears throughout Wednesday's (19Oct11) progress hearing, spent less than an hour in court custody before she posted $100,000 bail and walked free.
During the tense hearing, Lohan was reprimanded by Judge Stephanie
Sautner, who accused the star of making it "deliberately
impossible" to complete her community service sentence at the
Downtown Women's Center in Los Angeles.
The Mean Girls actress was ordered to serve 360 hours there as part
of her probation following a 2011 shoplifting conviction, but it
emerged last week (ends14Oct11) that bosses at the center had
terminated Lohan's arrangement because she had only completed a
fraction of her required shifts.
Judge Sautner suggested in court she had only shown up to the
center once and stayed for 90 minutes of a court-ordered four-hour
shift. Lohan was subsequently assigned to a new community service
program at the Red Cross, where she has been logging several hours
of work.
Reviewing the case, Judge Sautner stated: "Miss Lohan's actions
deliberately made it impossible to complete her community service
at the Downtown Women's Center... I certainly find that cause to
revoke probation."
Judge Sautner ruled against counting Lohan's hours at the Red Cross
as part of her community service requirements, insisting she should
have "immediately enrolled" in a program at the Los Angeles County
Morgue, where she was previously ordered to serve an additional 120
hours.
But that's not all - the actress also came under fire for only
finishing her court-ordered Shoplifters' Course on the eve of her
progress hearing on Wednesday - the deadline for the course
completion.
Defending Lohan's actions, her lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley
challenged, "She completed it last night, she began July 20th...
She completed both components of that (course) and... has glowing
reviews..."
Lohan will return to court on 2 November (11). She faces over a
year behind bars.