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Lindsay Lohan's latest struggle: finding a lawyer willing to take on her criminal case

By Douglas A. Berman

This post from TalkLeft altered me to this fascinating new report from People Magazine headlined "Lawyer: Lindsay Lohan Just Doesn't Get It." Here are excerpts: A 90-day jail sentence should be a wake-up call for Lindsay Lohan but she still isn't fully aware of her dire situation, according to a lawyer who sat down with the actress over the weekend. "My impression of Lindsay is that she's a fragile lost child ? a sleeping beauty with her head in the sand. I found her not fully forewarned of the consequence of her actions," Stuart V. Goldberg, who was contacted by Lohan after her attorney resigned, tells PEOPLE. "I'm concerned that she's not disciplined or tethered enough to the reality of adult consequences," he says. "She doesn't seem to have the awareness of what's going to befall her...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 12, 2010 (boomark / email).