"There has been violation after violation,"
Sautner said. Bail was set at $100,000. Lohan's spokesman Steve Honig said it was immediately posted and the actress was later released from Airport Courthouse.
A city prosecutor recommended jail time, but
Sautner set a Nov. 2 hearing to decide whether
Lohan should serve another stint behind bars,
where she has been sent four previous times only to be released early due to jail overcrowding.
"If jail meant something in the state of California
now, maybe I'd put her in jail," Sautner said.
The development marked the latest legal problem for the 25-year-old Lohan, who was given probation for a 2007 drunken driving case and a misdemeanor theft case this year.
"Lindsay is hoping this matter will be resolved on
Nov. 2 and the court will reinstate probation and
allow her to continue fulfilling her community
service," Honig said.
Lohan had been ordered in April to serve 360
hours at the Downtown Women's Center, an
agency that helps homeless women. Nine of
Lohan's appointments at the center were "just
blown off" and she "showed up once and left after an hour," Sautner said.
Lohan has since started serving hours with the
American Red Cross, but Sautner said that would not count because it was not part of
her sentence.
During the tense proceedings, Sautner
hammered Lohan for failing to show up for her
four-hour appointments at the women's center
and for taking six months to complete a court-
ordered Shoplifters Anonymous course. The judge also questioned how Lohan could have complied with her court-ordered weekly psychological counseling when she was traveling in Europe from Sept. 9 to Oct. 5.
"I don't know how she did that in person every
week," said Sautner, who suggested Lohan
complete a minimum of 16 hours of her
community service at the county morgue before
the Nov. 2 hearing, when Lohan's probation
officer and other officials will testify about her
efforts to complete her sentence.
Lohan, aside from a role in last year's film
"Machete," has seen her acting career evaporate
in recent years. She has been in perpetual trouble since May 2010.
Another judge determined she violated her
probation in the drunken driving case and
sentenced her to jail and rehab. She faltered after being released early from a rehab facility early and was sent to the Betty Ford Center, where she got in an altercation with a rehab worker who later sued.
Within weeks of her release from Betty Ford,
Lohan was accused of taking a $2,500 necklace
without permission from an upscale jewelry store
near her home in the Venice neighborhood of
Los Angeles.
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