Judge tells Lohan: No more parties
A judge has admonished Lindsay Lohan and told her she cannot have parties while under house arrest.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner said during a hearing today that she did not think the 'Mean Girls' actress violated her probation by testing positive for alcohol during a recent test.
Judge Sautner said the court record is ambiguous about whether or not Lohan was ordered to refrain from drinking.
The 24-year-old had been ordered to appear in court for a possible probation violation on her 2007 drink-drive case.
Lohan is currently under house arrest for violating her probation by taking a necklace without permission roughly three weeks after being released from court-ordered rehab.
Judge Sautner said the actress can only have one friend over to her house at a time. She set another hearing for July 21.
Lohan tearfully hugged her lawyer, Shawn Holley, after the hearing.
Earlier, she told Judge Sautner she wanted to put her court troubles behind her.
"Do you want to get on with your life? Tell me," said the judge.
"Yes, I do," Lohan replied. It was the only time she spoke during the hearing.
Ms Holley said after the hearing that Lohan had undergone more scrutiny than any other defendant and has been abiding by the terms of her sentence.
"She has done nothing wrong," she said, noting that alcohol is not illegal.
Some of the parties at Lohan's home in the Venice neighbourhood of Los Angeles have been photographed by paparazzi.
"Don't give people a reason to hate you," Judge Sautner told her. "Don't do stupid things that fly in the face of the court's order."
The judge said Lohan can only have one friend to visit at a time but can host family and business associates.
She ordered Lohan to appear in court on July 21, but said she would not incur any additional penalties if she abided by the terms of her probation.
Judge Sautner is the fifth judge to handle Lohan's case since she was arrested twice in 2007. In April, Lohan was found in violation of her probation for taking a necklace without permission.
Lohan is nearing the end of what is expected to be a 35-day term on house arrest on a four-month jail sentence. The judge made clear she did not approve of the house arrest or Lohan's early release, but noted it was out of her control.
All of Lohan's jail stints have been shortened due to jail overcrowding.
Her house arrest has been far from uneventful - authorities went to the actress's home four days after she began her sentence on May 26 because her ankle monitor reported being out of range.
The battery in the tag was going, authorities determined, but also noted in a probation report that she had hosted friends the night before and one of them had spilled a drink on some of the equipment.
