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Celebrity Trials is kicking off season two with a new
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host and new name. Hey, I'm Garrett Fisher, and starting
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March sixteenth, I'll be the new host on Daily Crime
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and Justice. It's the same great show, now with extra
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crime and extra justice. In the meantime, please enjoy this
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encore performance of one of Celebrity Trials classic episodes. See
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you on March sixteenth. We'll miss you, Read Carter and
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wish you the best.
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Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Read Carter and welcome
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to Celebrity Trials. Yesterday, something remarkable happened in movie theaters
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across America. Lindsay Lohan returned to the big screen in
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Freakier Friday, twenty two years after the original twenty two years.
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That's longer than she'd been alive when she first played
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Anna Coleman, and between those two films a legal saga
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that would make even the most creative screenwriter say, come on,
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that's too much. Today and tomorrow, we're doing something different.
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We're telling the story of someone who didn't murder anyone,
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didn't dismember anybody, didn't text their kid into killing someone.
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Lindsay Lohan's biggest victim was Lindsay Lohan, but her journey
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through the American justice system reveals something just as disturbing
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as any murder case. How fame, addiction, and wealth create
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a parallel universe where consequences are more suggestion than certainty.
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Picture this, a freckle faced eleven year old with red
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hair and a smile that could sell anything from jello
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to wonderbread. That was Lindsay Lohan in nineteen ninety eight,
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playing twins in The Parent Trap, Disney's newest Discovery, America's
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Sweetheart in Training. Now picture this that same girl, twenty
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one years old, stumbling out of a Beverly Hills police
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station at three AM with cocaine in her pocket and
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a blood alcohol level twice the legal limit. The trans
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information took less than a decade. How does that happen?
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How does a kid who had everything talent, beauty, money,
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opportunity end up with six mugshots and more time in
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rehab than most people spend in college. And more importantly,
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how does someone sentence to months in jail serve mere
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hours while regular people wrought in those same cells for
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far less. Let's start at the beginning, not the arrest
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record beginning, the real beginning, when Lindsay Lohan was just
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another kid from Long Island with stage parents and a dream.
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Lindsay Morgan Lohan was born July Tewod nineteen eighty six
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in the Bronx. Her father, Michael, was a Wall Street
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trader who would later serve time for stock fraud. Her mother, Dina,
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was a former radio city roquette who saw dollar signs
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where she should have seen a daughter. By age three,
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Lindsay was modeling for Ford. By eleven, she was a
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movie star. But here's what nobody talks about when they
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discussed child stars, the loneliness. After Mean Girls exploded in
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two thousand and four, Lohan moved into hotels, not an apartment, hotels,
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the Four Seasons, the Chateau Marmont. For two years, she
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lived at the Chateau Marmond like some kind of teenage
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Howard Hughes. Later, she'd explain it, I didn't want to
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be alone, so whatever I needed, I could just go
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downstairs and there were people there. Think about that an
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eighteen year old girl, one of the most famous people
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in America, so desperately lonely. She lived in a hotel
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lobby for companionship. That's not Hollywood glamour. That's a tragedy
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waiting to happen. The parents useless. Michael Lohan was in
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and out of jail, in and out of their lives,
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selling stories to tabloids whenever he needed cash. Dina was
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too busy being Lindsay's mamager to actually be her mother.
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Lindsay once said, I feel like a second parent in
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the sense that I helped raise my family. She was
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the readwinner, the caretaker, the adult in the room while
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she was still a teenager. By two thousand and six,
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the cracks were showing. She was attending alcoholics anonymous meetings
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at twenty. The girl who had everything was falling apart
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in public, and we all watched. We bought the magazines,
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we clicked the links, We made her destruction entertainment. Then
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came Memorial Day Weekend two thousand and seven, the beginning
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of the end, or maybe the end of the beginning.
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May twenty sixth, two thousand and seven, two forty five am,
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Sunset Boulevard, Lindsay Lohan's Mercedes Benz convertible jumps a curb
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and slams into a hedge when police arrived. They find
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more than just a drunk driver. They find cocaine. The
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blood test would later show a blood alcohol level of
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point one two, well above California's point zero eight limit.
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This wasn't some teenager's first beer. This was a twenty
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year old woman so intoxicated she couldn't keep a car
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on the road with cocaine for dessert. She was supposed
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to start filming Poor Things that week. Instead, she checked
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into Promises Treatment center in Malibu. Promises even the name
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sounds like marketing. We promise you'll get better for ninety
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thousand dollars a month, they better promise something. Lindsay lasted
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forty five days. She got out July thirteenth, two thousand
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and seven, with an alcohol monitoring bracelet on her ankle voluntarily.
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Her people said, like that made it noble instead of necessary.
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Eleven days. That's how long her sobriety lasted eleven days.
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July twenty fourth, two thousand and seven, one thirty five am.
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Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica. This time it wasn't just
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a crashed Mercedes. This time there was a chase. Here's
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what happened, according to police reports and witness statements. Lindsay's
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assistant quit. The assistant's mother came to pick her up
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from a party. Lindsay, drunken high jumped into a DENALISUV
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and chased them down pch at speeds that would make
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Nascar jealous. The assistant's mother called nine to one one terrified.
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I can't get her to stop following me, she told
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the dispatcher. When police finally pulled Lindsay over in a
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parking lot, she failed two breathalyzer tests. But wait, it
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gets better or worse, depending on your perspective. During the
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booking process, police found cocaine in her pocket. Her excuse,
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these weren't her pants, really, Lindsay, you're going with these
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aren't my pants? That's what every junkie in every jail
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in America says, and it never ever works. Oh and
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remember that voluntary alcohol monitoring bracelet. She was wearing it
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during the chase. It was literally recording her intoxication in
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real time while she was committing multiple felonies. The charges
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were spectacular. Two counts of driving under the influence, two
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counts of driving with a blood alcohol level above point
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zero eight, two counts of being under the influence of cocaine,
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one count of reckless driving, and because she'd lost her
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license after the first arrest, one count of driving on
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a suspended license. Seven misdemeanors at twenty one years old.
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August twenty third, two thousand and seven. The plea deal.
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This is where the two tiered justice system really starts
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to show itself. Seven misdemeanors, including two DUIs and cocaine possession.
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The sentence one day in jail, ten days of community service,
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three years of probation.
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That's it.
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One day for comparison. I looked up California sentencing guidelines.
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A second DUI typically carries a mandatory minimum of ninety
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six hours in jail. That's four days, not one. And
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that's without the cocaine, without the reckless driving, without the
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suspended license. But Lindsey got twenty four hours. Want to
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know how long she actually served? Eighty four minutes, one
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hour and twenty four minutes. She checked into Lynnwood Correctional
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Facility at ten thirty pm on November fifteenth, two thousand
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and seven. She was released at eleven fifty four pm.
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The Sheriff's department cited overcrowding overcrowding. The same jail where
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regular people serve their full sentences, sometimes more when they
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can't make bail, was too crowded for Lindsay Lohan. She
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served less time than it takes to watch Freaky Friday.
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Let me paint you a picture of what eighty four
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minutes in jail looks like. Processing takes about an hour fingerprints, photos, paperwork.
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She probably spent twenty minutes in an actual cell. Maybe
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she used the toilet, Maybe she sat on the bench
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and thought about her life, or maybe she just knew
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this was all for show, that her lawyer had already
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arranged her release before she ever walked in. Meanwhile, in
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that same jail, there were people serving months for the
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same crimes. People who couldn't afford Sean Holly, Lindsay's seven
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hundred dollars an hour attorney who had worked on the
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OJ Simpson Dream Team, people whose parents weren't selling exclusives
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to Okay magazine to pay for their defense, people who
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were actually being punished. Back in a moment, welcome back
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to celebrity trials. I'm read Carter, and we're exploring how
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Lindsay Lohan turned the criminal justice system into a revolving
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door with a VIP pass. After her eighty four minute incarceration,
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you'd think Lindsay might have taken the hint. Three years
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of probation is a long time. All she had to
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do was stay clean, go to her alcohol education classes,
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and complete ten days of community service. For someone with
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unlimited resources, a driver assistance, and no actual job to
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report to, this should have been easy. It wasn't. See
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here's what people don't understand about addiction. It doesn't care
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about your bank account, It doesn't care about your talent,
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it doesn't care that you were in Mean Girls Arles.
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Addiction is democratic that way. It'll destroy anyone equally. The
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only difference is how long you can afford to keep
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the destruction private. Lindsay couldn't keep anything private. Every stumble
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was photographed, every fall documented. She became a walking reality
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show before reality shows were even a thing. The paparazzi
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followed her to AA meetings, to court ordered classes, to
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rehab facilities. They made millions off her misery. October two
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thousand and nine, two years into her three year probation,
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Lindsay shows up to a progress hearing over an hour late.
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The judge Marcia Revel is not amused. Turns out Lindsay
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had been missing her alcohol education classes, the same classes
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that were keeping her out of jail. The judge extends
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her probation another year. But here's where it gets interesting.
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Judge Revel says something that should have been a warning.
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I wanted you to have your career, but you cannot
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thumb your nose at this court. Thumb your nose. That's
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a polite way of saying. Lindsay had been treating the
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justice system like a suggestion, not a requirement, and she
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was about to learn that even celebrity has its limits.
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May twenty ten, the Can Film Festival. Lindsey is there
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promoting a film she's supposedly starring in Inferno, where she'd
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play porn star Linda Lovelace. She's supposed to be at
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a mandatory court hearing in Beverly Hills on May twentieth.
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Her excuse for missing it she lost her passport. She
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lost her passport in Can during the film festival, while
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partying on yachts and walking red carpets. The judge issued
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a bench warrant for her arrest, which was only lifted
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after Lindsay posted one hundred thousand dollars bail. When she
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finally appeared in court on May twenty fourth, Judge Revel
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had had enough. She ordered Lindsay to wear a scram bracelet.
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That's secure, continuous remote alcohol monitor for those keeping track.
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It tests your sweat every thirty minutes for alcohol, no
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drinking period. She also ordered random weekly drug testing. Two
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weeks later, June eighth, twenty ten, the MTV Movie Awards,
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Lindsey's scram bracelet goes off like a fire alarm. The
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device detected alcohol. Lindsay's excuse, the bracelet malfunctioned. Right, The
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same technology used to monitor thousands of offenders across the
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country just happened to malfunction at the exact moment. Lindsay
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was at a Hollywood party July sixth, twenty ten, the
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day Lindsay Lohan cried in court and I mean sobbed,
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ugly snot running makeup, destroying tears because Judge Revel was
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done playing games. The photos from that day are devastating.
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Lindsay in a gray suit, trying to look responsible, her
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hair pulled back, minimal makeup going for the I'm taking
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this seriously look, but her fingernails told a different story.
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Someone zoomed in on her middle finger, written in tiny
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letters on the nail, fuck you. She had fuck you
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written on her fingernail while begging a judge for mercy.
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That's not defiance, that's delusion. Judge Revel sentenced her to
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ninety days in jail for violating probation, followed by ninety
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days in rehab. Lindsay's response, I did do everything that
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I was told to do and did the best I could. No, Lindsay,
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you didn't. You missed classes, you failed alcohol tests, you
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showed up late to court, you fled the country to
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avoid hearings. That's not doing your best. That's barely trying.
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But here's the kicker of those ninety days in jail.
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She served fourteen two weeks, released early due to overcrowding
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and good behavior. Good behavior in two weeks, what did
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she do? Teach yoga to the other inmates. The rehab
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stint was equally meaningless. Ninety days became twenty three at
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UCLA Medical Center. Then she was released to outpatient treatment,
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which meant she could go home. The cycle continued. September
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twenty fourth, twenty ten, failed drug test cocaine and amphetamines.
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Back to jail, released the same day after posting bail.
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February twenty eleven. Arrested for stealing a two thousand, five
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hundred dollars necklace from a Venice jewelry store. The surveillance
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video is damning. She walks out wearing it, never pays.
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Her excuse she was borrowing it from a store without asking.
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That's not borrowing, Lindsay, that's shoplifting. April twenty second, twenty eleven,
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Sentenced to one hundred twenty days in jail for the theft
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and probation violation. Served five hours, not days hours. She
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was fitted with an ankle monitor and sent home for
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house arrest, during which she threw parties, failed alcohol tests,
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and posted it all on social media. Are you seeing
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the pattern? Arrest, conviction, sentence, release, repeat. It's like the
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justice system had a revolving door with Lindsay's name on it.
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November twenty eleven, Back to jail for failing to complete
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community service at a women's shelter. She was supposed to
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do three hundred and sixty hours, she'd done barely any
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the excuse she didn't feel comfortable at the shelter, so
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they moved her to the Morgue, the Los Angeles County Morgue,
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because nothing says rehabilitation like making a drug addict organized
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dead bodies, even that she couldn't do right October twentieth,