Weeping Lindsay Lohan Jailed

KOMPAS.com - A US judge has sentenced actress Lindsay Lohan to 90 days in jail after ruling she violated probation in a 2007 drug case by failing to attend court-ordered alcohol education classes.

Lohan burst into tears after Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel handed down her sentence in a court in Beverly Hills on Tuesday. The star of Mean Girls was not required to surrender immediately but will have to turn herself in on July 20.

She will also be required to enter an in-patient rehabilitation program after her release from jail. The ruling came during a hearing set for Lohan after she missed a court date in May. She has been required to wear an ankle alcohol monitor since then.

The monitor issued an alert after Lohan attended the MTV Movie Awards and after-parties last month. Prosecutors had hoped to introduce reports from the monitor to show the actress had also violated a court order against drinking, which was imposed as part of her probation.

Judge Revel said during the hearing that the device showed Lohan's blood-alcohol content was .03. However, the judge said she would not consider whether the actress actually consumed alcohol after attending the MTV Movie Awards. Lohan has denied drinking that night.

The judge said she would honour what she told lawyers for both sides in a closed meeting last month and not allow the negative report to be used at the hearing.

She said she would only consider whether the actress failed to complete the required number of alcohol education courses on time.

Cheryl Marshall, a co-founder of the education program, testified she did not report Lohan to be in violation of the judge's order when the actress missed nine meetings, then made up an undisclosed number.

Ms Marshall said she was aware the program received a phone call from the judge in December saying she wanted Lohan to attend classes each week. But Ms Marshall added she did not get a paper copy of the order and did not consider it active.

Ms Marshall's program fought against providing records and testimony at the hearing, but Judge Revel ruled the information was necessary.