Lindsay Lohan Claims She`s a Victim
LINDSAY LOHAN, ACTRESS: I know that I was ordered to go once a week, and I wasn`t -- you know, I wasn`t missing a class. I`m not doing anything like that. I was working mostly in Morocco. I was working with children. It wasn`t a vacation. It wasn`t some sort of a joke. And I respect and am taking it seriously.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: What a drama plea. Tonight, new outrage over Lindsay Lohan`s legal drama-rama. Even though she was just given another break by the courts, Lindsay has the nerve to claim she is the victim of a witch hunt. When you pose for a whopping five mug shots, you can`t go throwing the word "victim" around. A judge actually reduced Lindsay`s theft charge from a felony to a misdemeanor on Friday. She was also sentenced to 120 days in jail for violating her drunk-driving probation by getting arrested for that alleged necklace theft back in January, but Lindsay posted bail and, poof, she was out in just a couple of hours. Again. Sounds like another case of Hollywood justice to me. Straight out to Dylan Howard, senior executive editor for "Star" magazine. Lindsay`s attorney is appealing the probation violation. I`ve never heard of anybody appealing a probation violation actually. What can we expect next with Lindsay?</s>DYLAN HOWARD, SENIOR EXECUTIVE EDITOR, "STAR" MAGAZINE: Well, she`s almost certainly, Jane, headed back to jail. That`s the bottom line. Despite the fact that her high-powered attorney, Shawn Holley, has appealed this sentence of 120 days and community service, as handed down by Judge Stephanie Sautner in a court last Friday, it seems unlikely that that appeal will halt anyway. So Lindsay Lohan, despite not being convicted of this crime of misdemeanor theft, remains free on bail that was posted, $75,000. And she was released on Friday night from a jail here in Los Angeles after spending five hours behind bars. But it`s a means to an end, because she will end up behind bars, unless Shawn Holley can pull something out of the hat.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: And so when might we see her actually go to jail? This appeal probably won`t take very long, right? And she could end up going to jail any day?</s>HOWARD: Well, some are suggesting that this appeal could take some time, up to months, in fact.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Oh.</s>HOWARD: So it remains to be seen how long this probation violation -- how long this case will drag out. But of course, that`s not the end of the road for Lindsay Lohan. She still faces this misdemeanor theft charge, stemming from the theft of a $250,000 necklace from a Venice Beach, California, jewelry store.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Let me jump in with this question.</s>HOWARD: And of course, she says that she was borrowing it.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: The judge -- the judge said Friday she thinks that Lindsay intentionally swiped this necklace, $2,500 necklace from the jewelry store. The also said that the actress, quote, "thumbs her nose at the court," which I agree 100 percent. Justice never arrives for this drama queen. Exhibit</s>A: the "F. you" manicure from last summer`s hearing. So why on earth, Dylan, did the judge reduce the theft charge to a misdemeanor? Why did she get another break?</s>HOWARD: Well, there were some serious questions about the actual crime itself, including one of those being the value of the necklace. Now, it was appraised as being less than the two and a half thousand- dollar market price, and that doesn`t constitute a grand theft felony charge. So that was reduced in that element. But at the same time, the judge who quite rightly pointed out there, Jane, was on record as saying that the video evidence was quite compelling. The first time Judge Sautner saw that video evidence. And it showed Lindsay Lohan leaving the store with that necklace on. So Lindsay Lohan`s almost certainly headed back to jail for that probation violation and must face this misdemeanor charge.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: All right. We`re going to see you in a minute. We`ll be talking about the royal wedding, coming up. Next, culture of violence out of control.