Lindsay Lohan on bail over probation violation

Published on Saturday 23 April 2011 11:38

ACTRESS Lindsay Lohan has been released on bail from a Los Angeles County jail, just hours after she was sentenced to 120 days for violating her probation.

Lohan was released on $75,000 bail on Friday. Earlier, a judge reduced her charge from felony grand theft to a misdemeanour for allegedly taking a designer necklace from an upmarket store in the Venice area of Los Angeles.

It was a deja vu day for the starlet, who was admonished by a judge - the fourth she's faced in nearly a year - who said she thought the actress had intentionally taken the $2,500 necklace and shown poor judgment in not trying to return it until police became involved.

But by reducing the actress's charge from felony grand theft to a misdemeanour, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner may have set in motion what has become a familiar cycle for Lohan - being sent to jail only to have the sentence cut short due to jail overcrowding.

The judge said she hoped to give the Mean Girls and Freaky Friday star a dose of perspective by sentencing her to almost 500 hours of community service, including time at the county mortuary and 300 hours at a women's shelter.

It was the fourth time Lohan has been jailed, though two of the trips amounted to a few hours. Last summer, she spent 14 days in jail on a 90-day sentence.

Lohan has been a courthouse fixture since last May when she missed a hearing in her drunken driving case. Since then, two judges have sent her to jail twice and rehab, also twice.

It is unclear what effect the sentence may have on Lohan's next acting role. Producers of the film Gotti: Three Generations announced last Wednesday that Lohan had been cast to play the wife of John Gotti Jr. in the film.