Lindsay Lohan fronts the court yesterday with her lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley, left. Picture: Getty Source: news.com.au
Lindsay Lohan is led away in handcuffs at her probation hearing yesterday Picture: Getty Source: news.com.au
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LINDSAY Lohan was marked as a no-show yesterday after arriving late to a court-mandated community service appointment at the Los Angeles County Morgue.
The latest development in the actress's legal woes came a day after Lohan was briefly jailed when Los Angeles judge Stephanie Sautner revoked her probation for failing to keep up with her community service requirements.
Lohan was due to report to the morgue at 8:00am local time for an eight hour shift but was about an hour late and turned away, officials from the LA county coroner's office said.
An assistant for the actress called the morgue 20 minutes before Lohan's scheduled start time saying she was in the car and about 10 minutes away, a representative for the coroner's office said. At 8:20am, Lohan had not arrived.
At 8:40am she showed up, driving an $US80,000 ($78,000) Porsche Panamera, TMZ reports. Lohan was turned away by morgue officials, citing protocol, and told to try again on tomorrow.
Lohan's publicist said in a statement the actress was only 20 minutes late, and her tardiness was due to "a combination of not knowing what entrance to go through and confusion caused by the media waiting for her arrival."
Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter dismissed the excuse. "She's been here before. And she was given directions."
Her failure to show up on time will be reported to Sautner, who yesterday revoked Lohan's probation for failing to keep up with her community service requirements.
Lohan, 25, was sentenced to 480 hours of community service at a Los Angeles women's centre and the morgue after pleading no contest earlier this year to taking a $US2,500 necklace from a Los Angeles boutique.
During the hearing yesterday, Sautner told Lohan she should complete 16 hours of community service at the Los Angeles County morgue before November 2, when she is due back in court for a probation violation hearing. Prosecutors have said they would likely press for jail time for Lohan.
LA County Sheriff Lee Baca told KTTV yesterday that he would find room in the county's overcrowded jails if Lohan is sentenced to time behind bars next month. Baca called Lohan a "sick" drug addict and said he believes she needs 60 days in the slammer.
Six months into her probation, Lohan has only completed three of the 60 days of community service she was ordered to serve.
Sautner said Lohan was "looking a gift horse in the mouth" by "blowing off" her community service.
Lohan spent 35 days under house arrest this summer in lieu of jail time as part of her sentence.
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