AllRespect.com // Lindsay Lohan Will Do Jail Time, New Lawyer Insists

Posted on 2010-07-17 03:00:11
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'Ms. Lohan is suffering from a disease that I am all too familiar with,' says Robert Shapiro, whose son died of a drug overdose.By Kelley L. Carter

Lindsay LohanPhoto: Jean Baptiste Lacroix / Getty Images

Earlier this week, TMZ reported that Lindsay Lohan's new attorney, Robert Shapiro, didn't have plans to appeal Lohan's 90-day jail sentence but instead would try to convince Judge Marsha Revel to put Lindsay in a rehab facility and either eliminate or minimize jail time. At the time, the site reported that Shapiro wanted to have Lohan placed in a live-in rehab facility with which he is said to be involved.

That appears to have changed.

"I have agreed to represent Ms. Lohan on the condition that she complies with all the terms of her probation, including a requirement of jail time that was imposed by Judge Marsha Revel," Shapiro told TMZ. "Ms. Lohan is suffering from a disease that I am all too familiar with."

The lawyer, who represented O.J. Simpson in his 1994 murder trial, was talking about his son Brent, who died of an MDMA drug overdose in 2005.

Lohan's original lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley, resigned shortly after the actress was sentenced.

Onetime Lohan attorney candidate Stuart V. Goldberg said the actress didn't understand what she was up against.

"My impression of Lindsay is that she's a fragile lost child — a sleeping beauty with her head in the sand," Goldberg said in an interview with People magazine this week. "I found her not fully forewarned of the consequence of her actions. I'm concerned that she's not disciplined or tethered enough to the reality of adult consequences. ... She doesn't seem to have the awareness of what's going to befall her."

Lohan must surrender herself Tuesday to begin serving 90 days in jail, followed by a 90-day inpatient drug rehabilitation program.

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