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September 25, 2010, Saturday
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A judge late yesterday granted an appeal to release actress Lindsay Lohan from jail less than nine hours after she was placed behind bars on a charge of violating her probation by failing a drug test.
Judge Patricia Schnegg, an assistant supervising judge in the Los Angeles courts, signed the order to free Lohan, set bail at US$300,000 and ordered the "Mean Girls" actress to wear an alcohol monitoring bracelet, a spokesman said.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's department, which runs the jails, was notified Lohan was free to go, but a spokesman was not immediately available last night to say whether she had been released.
Schnegg's order came at the end of a day of fast-changing events in which the 24-year-old actress was first denied bail and sent to jail for violating probation on a 2007 charge of drunken driving and cocaine possession, due to evidence she ignored an order barring her from consuming alcohol or drugs.
Legal experts had believed Lohan would spend nearly a month behind bars awaiting an October 22 hearing on probation violation, but her attorney Shawn Chapman Holley filed a writ of appeal late in the day seeking to set aside Judge Fox's ruling. Schnegg approved that appeal.
In August, the "Mean Girls" actress served two weeks of a 90-day jail sentence and 22 more days in a residential drug treatment program when a judge ruled she violated probation for the same charges of drunken driving and cocaine possession.
After being released from rehab, Lohan was subject to court-ordered drug tests. Last week, she sent out a series of messages on Twitter admitting she failed a test and saying she was working to overcome her substance abuse.
"Regrettably, I did in fact fail my most recent drug test, and if I am asked, I am prepared to appear before Judge Fox," Lohan tweeted last week.
On Monday, an arrest warrant was issued and she was ordered to appear in court yesterday, where she was whisked off to jail in handcuffs after a brief hearing.
Websites around the world posted a photo of Lohan in an orange, prison-issued jumpsuit, a stark contrast to the sleek black designer jacket and white skirt she wore to court yesterday morning.
Independent attorneys said judges often deny bail in cases where a defendant violates probation, but California law provides that in misdemeanor cases like Lohan's, defendants have a right to bail, which was what Schnegg recognized.
Judge Patricia Schnegg, an assistant supervising judge in the Los Angeles courts, signed the order to free Lohan, set bail at US$300,000 and ordered the "Mean Girls" actress to wear an alcohol monitoring bracelet, a spokesman said.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's department, which runs the jails, was notified Lohan was free to go, but a spokesman was not immediately available last night to say whether she had been released.
Schnegg's order came at the end of a day of fast-changing events in which the 24-year-old actress was first denied bail and sent to jail for violating probation on a 2007 charge of drunken driving and cocaine possession, due to evidence she ignored an order barring her from consuming alcohol or drugs.
Legal experts had believed Lohan would spend nearly a month behind bars awaiting an October 22 hearing on probation violation, but her attorney Shawn Chapman Holley filed a writ of appeal late in the day seeking to set aside Judge Fox's ruling. Schnegg approved that appeal.
In August, the "Mean Girls" actress served two weeks of a 90-day jail sentence and 22 more days in a residential drug treatment program when a judge ruled she violated probation for the same charges of drunken driving and cocaine possession.
After being released from rehab, Lohan was subject to court-ordered drug tests. Last week, she sent out a series of messages on Twitter admitting she failed a test and saying she was working to overcome her substance abuse.
"Regrettably, I did in fact fail my most recent drug test, and if I am asked, I am prepared to appear before Judge Fox," Lohan tweeted last week.
On Monday, an arrest warrant was issued and she was ordered to appear in court yesterday, where she was whisked off to jail in handcuffs after a brief hearing.
Websites around the world posted a photo of Lohan in an orange, prison-issued jumpsuit, a stark contrast to the sleek black designer jacket and white skirt she wore to court yesterday morning.
Independent attorneys said judges often deny bail in cases where a defendant violates probation, but California law provides that in misdemeanor cases like Lohan's, defendants have a right to bail, which was what Schnegg recognized.
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