Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Lohan's Gonna Skate


Lindsay Lohan is not in nearly as much trouble as we originally thought she was. According to TMZ, the misbehaving starlet, who is currently cooling her heels in a Utah rehab, is most likely going to see all potential felony drug possession charges against her dropped, including one for bringing narcotics into a correctional facility. The D.A., who will likely be filing tomorrow, is expected to pursue only a pair of misdemeanor DUI charges against Lohan - meaning she will not face prison time. Also, TMZ says Lohan's lawyers are probably looking at hammering out a plea deal. In any case, since no felony charges are to be filed, Lindsay will not have to show for the arraignment Friday, leaving her free to stay up in Utah where she is having a high old time hiking, white-water rafting and probably laying every dirty, tattooed wash-out she can get her grubby little hands on.

I'm not exactly sure what it means, by the way, that Lohan will not be facing possession charges for the second incident - the one where she walked into the cop-shop with cocaine actually in her pocket. You'd think that one would be cut-and-dried, wouldn't you? Unless it was too small an amount to constitute possession - or unless the story as it was told to us was complete bullshit. It's hard to know with this stuff, especially after the tabs start reporting every rumor and innuendo, whether you're getting anything remotely resembling the real truth. For all we know there never was any cocaine either time and it was all just a bunch of lies. Either way, it looks like Lohan's going to skate. At most she'll probably get a couple days in jail - and lots of people will cry out that this is an injustice, especially Paris Hilton. To me it doesn't really matter much whether Lohan does real time for this stuff or not - she is incorrigible, and will eventually fuck up so bad that there's no way out. Hopefully that fuck-up will not include wiping out an SUV carrying a vacationing family.

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