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Should Lindsey Lohan's lawyer be talking up interest in a plea deal for his client?

By Douglas A. Berman

Since the entertainment media provides plenty of coverage of Lindsay Lohan's legal troubles, I am disinclined to blog much about her latest criminal case at least until it gets to a sentencing stage.  However, this piece from CNN, which is headlined "Lindsay Lohan would consider a no-jail plea deal, her lawyer says," prompts the legal ethics question in the title of this post.  Here are the factual basics: Lindsay Lohan will consider a plea deal on the charge that she stole a necklace from a jewelry store if she can avoid going to jail, her lawyer said Thursday.  Attorney Shawn Chapman Holley insisted, though, that the grand theft charge is "entirely defensible." The actress entered a not guilty plea in the case Wednesday before Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Keith Schwartz, but the judge immediately revoked her probation related to a 2007 drunk driving conviction...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 11, 2011 (boomark / email).