Lindsay Lohan refused to take the plea deal to felony charges as she says she is innocent & she won’t submit to something she hasn’t done. Moreover, she insists that the jewelry store allowed her to borrow the necklace & her assistant returned it to police. Had she accepted the plea deal, she just had to serve 19 days in jail due to overcrowding. Anyway, her lawyer thinks they have a strong case.
“Ms. Lohan has maintained her innocence from the moment this case was filed and she has never wavered,” her attorney, Shawn Holley, said in a statement to E! News. “Though many advised her to follow the safe route by taking ‘the deal’, the truth is, Ms. Lohan is innocent; she has a strong defense; and we are confident that a jury will listen to the evidence fairly and acquit her.”
So now she faces trial. The preliminary hearing is on April 22nd.
Lohan has already been to jail three times in the past three years for DUI, drug possession and probation violations.
I don’t know whether not taking the plea deal is a right decision or not. If she’s truly innocent, then I guess she has made the right choice but then we have a very big if. And if she’s guilty, then she must be punished just like anyone else.
