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Kudos to Professor Erik Luna for being cited by Lindsay Lohan in her Twitter rant about her jail sentence

By Douglas A. Berman

I thought that I had reached a sentencing pop-culture zenith a few years ago when, as detailed here, ESPN's Mike & Mike made fun of me on their ESPN morning radio show.  But my good friend and colleague Professor Erik Luna has now clearly topped me; as detailed in this CBS News report, he got cited by Lindsay Lohan in a Twitter rant about her recent sentencing: Lindsay Lohan is making it clear to the world that she thinks her 90-day jail sentence was an unjust ruling. In a series of posts on her Twitter account, the troubled Hollywood starlet protested her innocence while also expressing her frustration towards the "constitutionally perverted" justice system. "It is clearly stated in Article 5 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights that ...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 08, 2010 (boomark / email).