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Lindsay Lohan saga continues, as she is hauled off to jail again

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this CBS News piece, the latest installment of a (now tiresome?) starlet drama unfolded in a Los Angeles courtroom today: Actress Lindsay Lohan is back behind bars after failing a court-ordered drug test. A Los Angeles judge has refused to set bail and ordered her to remain in custody. Immediately following Friday's hearing, which lasted only ten minutes, bailiffs escorted the 24-year-old Lohan from the Beverly Hills courtroom. Her next stop was the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, the same facility she was released from less than two months ago.... [This] will be Lohan's third jail stint in a 3-year-old drug and drunken driving case after a pair of high-profile arrests in 2007. The only difference from her previous jail stints is that this time Lohan will not be released early...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 24, 2010 (boomark / email).