Lindsay Lohan handcuffed in LA court probation hearing

[Gerald]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/15381507

[JU_88]

Good!
Ahh remember this little gem?

Very enjoyable to watch the look of disbelief is pricelss, 'yes Lindsay, even you can go to jail!'
Its good when someone who screws up all the time - FINALLY learns that their actions have concequenses (when they thought they were safe because they have a few $$.)

[MothBalls]

Some celebrities think they are above the law. The sad thing is, they are correct. If this had been any other ordinary citizen they would be sitting in jail right now, a real jail. I guess putting her in jail wouldn't sell as many tabloids or make many headlines.

I sincerely hope she gets a judge who's fed up with her crap and decides to throw away the key.

[Osmium Steele]

Don't you just hate it when our judicial system victimizes rich, entitled celebrities this way?

Such a shame.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by JU_88

Good!
Ahh remember this little gem?

Very enjoyable to watch the look of disbelief is pricelss, 'yes Lindsay, even you can go to jail!'
Its good when someone who screws up all the time - FINALLY learns that their actions have concequenses (when they thought they were safe because they have a few $$.)

[Lord Justice]

Originally Posted by MothBalls

I sincerely hope she gets a judge who's fed up with her crap and decides to throw away the key.

I agree.

[Thomen]

I am torn on this one. While I can see taking away the probation for failing a drug test, or because she failed to attend counseling, the reasoning of "she did not do community service" is a load of crap. I wonder why the Judge is so angsty.

-- the actress was booted and reassigned by the probation department to the American Red Cross --

So, with other words, Lohan started her community service, got into an argument or whatever with the Women's Center, got reassigned by the probation department and the Judge gets pissy because Lohan didn't stay at the Women's Center.

Yeah right..

I am not a big fan of Lohan, (I don;t like her at all, actually) but this just smells like a judge with an overblown ego and a case bordering on injustice.

the reasoning of "she did not do community service" is a load of crap. I wonder why the Judge is so angsty.

Is it?

So, with other words, Lohan started her community service, got into an argument or whatever with the Women's Center, got reassigned by the probation department and the Judge gets pissy because Lohan didn't stay at the Women's Center.

Doesn't the article say she didn't turn up for her first 9 community service sessions and walked out when she finaly turned up for the 10th session. So the fact that she now has a assignment at the red cross doesn't change the fact she broke the terms of her sentence and is entirely irrelevant as she isn't in trouble for eventually turning up at the Red Cross she is in trouble for all the times she didn't turn up and for the time she walked out.

but this just smells like a judge with an overblown ego and a case bordering on injustice.

It smells like you don't understand the case or justice.

[MothBalls]

Originally Posted by Thomen

and a case bordering on injustice.

The only injustice being done here is the little bitch isn't behind bars where she belongs.

[Thomen]

Originally Posted by MothBalls

The only injustice being done here is the little bitch isn't behind bars where she belongs.

Here.. have some.. I know I will. It has to be 5 o'clock somewhere..

[Gerald]

Yes, somewhere in asia.

[vienna]

I sincerely hope she gets a judge who's fed up with her crap and decides to throw away the key.

The current judge is very fed up with Lohan and her antics and disregard for the laws and the courts. At the last court hearing, she spoke from the bench, on the record, and expressed her frustration over the fact a new state law will lead to 'lower level' felons being shunted off to local county jails from state prisons as a cost cutting effort by the state government. The local jails are already over-crowded due to the state lagging in building new state prisons. This is why less-serious offenders are given early release to reduce over-crowding. This is also why you see so often celebrity offender being sentenced to, say, 90 days in jail and getting out in a day or two. The judge noted that even if she were to impose a full-length jail sentence on Lohan, early release guidelines would render the sentence to just a few days at most. Another judge, in one of the Paris Hilton trials, tried to circumvent this situation by issuing a direct bench order to the county Sheriff's Department (who administer and supervise the county jail system) to keep Hilton in jail for her full sentence. The Sheriff instead took umbrage and said the court had no right to tell him how to run "his" jails and ignored the court order and gave Hilton early release...

Added to this is a star-struck Los Angeles County Sheriff, Lee Baca, who seems to bend over backward to accomdate celebrity prisoners. Baca, himself is a joke; he first won his office in an election in which the frontrunner for the office died some time before the election. The dead candidate still managed to garner about 38% of the vote in a runoff election. Baca has also publicly stated his policies in running the Sheriff's Department and the county jails is based on the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard and Dianetics. Baca has attended many Scientology functions and has publicly endorsed Dianetics and Scientology...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office, the County Jail system, and Lee Baca are currently under at least 2 known Federal investigations, a Grand Jury inquiry, and other state and local investigations for jailhouse guard brutality, up to and including fatal actions by guards against prisoners, and numerous other accusations of mismanagement, malfeasance, favoritism, and incompetence...

[joea]

Not again.

[Jimbuna]

Where would someone be (no name or pack drill) without the BBC?

[Kongo Otto]

Lyndsay who?