Lindsay Lohan Gets Lucky

It looks like Lindsay will be getting lucky where Paris Hilton was not; she’s getting away with far less jail time than expected for her charges of multiple instances of DUI and also the potential charges she would face for the possession of cocaine and bringing cocaine into a correctional facility. It’s also definitely interesting to mention that Lindsay claims that the cocaine found in her pocket at the correctional facility did not belong to her, because as she claims, the pants she was wearing were simply not hers. Somehow, I can’t help actually believing that this may be the case in this one instance. However, I don’t believe for one minute that Lohan should get out of the other cocaine possession charge.

The most interesting aspects of this case are the accusations of the driver of the car that Lohan apparently chased while intoxicated which ended at a police station and officers approached the women with their guns drawn. As disgusting and pitiful as Lohan’s behavior is, there is still something grossly comical about her participating in a high speed chase that ended with police officers pointing their guns at her. I’d love to hear the story of the officers when they realized who they were aiming toward.

It appears now that Lohan’s lawyers (including the notably famous attorney Blair Berk) have formulated a plea bargain deal that will allow Lohan to serve a mere one day in jail by pleading no contest to the two counts of DUI that she would have faced at trial. So how does one get only one day in jail for two DUIs? Well, Lindsay’s lawyers managed to convince the judge to cut the minimum sentence of four days to two by requiring her to complete ten days of community service. The sentence was cut to one day because Lindsay was given credit for the time she had already spent in jail. When you hear about other celebs like Nicole Richie spending a mere 82 minutes in jail for a four day sentence due to overcrowding, you wonder whether Lindsay will even have time to be booked into jail before being released.

I think that many of you will agree with my view that Lohan deserves a lot more punishment than she’s getting. If not because no regular citizen could get away with this small amount of punishment for similar actions, then because I think it’s going to take a little more than this to penetrate Lohan’s ignorance and addiction to persuade her to get the help she obviously needs.