Lohan to Serve 1 Day In Plea Agreement

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Aug. 23 -- Lindsay Lohan reached a plea deal Thursday that calls for her to spend one day in jail, serve 10 days of community service and complete a drug-treatment program.

Charged with misdemeanor drunken driving and cocaine possession, the 21-year-old actress also was placed on 36 months' probation, is required to complete an 18-month alcohol education program, must pay hundreds of dollars in fines and must complete a three-day county coroner program in which she'll visit a morgue and talk to victims of drunken drivers. She must serve her jail time by Jan. 18.

"It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs," Lohan said in a statement. "I broke the law and today I took responsibility by pleading guilty to the charges in my case."

After an hour-long hearing before Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge H. Chester Horn Jr., Deputy District Attorney Danette Meyers said Lohan is "getting what everyone else would get."

If Lohan were to be convicted of another DUI charge, she would receive a mandatory 120-day jail sentence, Meyers said.

Lohan was charged earlier in the day with seven misdemeanors stemming from two drunken-driving arrests in the past four months. More serious felony drug charges were not filed, prosecutors said, because tests showed there wasn't enough cocaine on her to warrant them.

Lohan pleaded guilty to two counts of being under the influence of cocaine; no contest to two counts of driving with a blood-alcohol level above .08 percent; and one count of reckless driving. Two counts of driving under the influence were dropped.

In May, Lohan checked into the posh Promises rehabilitation facility in Malibu, Calif., after crashing her Mercedes into a tree on Sunset Boulevard. After leaving the facility July 13, she was photographed wearing an alcohol-monitoring ankle bracelet. She was arrested again on July 24 following a 911 call by the mother of Lohan's former personal assistant who said she was being chased by an SUV. Police later said Lohan was the driver. Her blood-alcohol level was between 0.12 and 0.13 percent when police found her, officials said. Police also found a white powder in her pocket that was determined to be .02 grams of cocaine. She was enrolled in a drug rehab center in Sundance, Utah, attorneys said in court Thursday.

Lohan started 2007 in rehab at the Wonderland Center in Los Angeles. "I was growing up and going out a lot, and I needed to have a balance," she told Elle magazine in May, just days before her first DUI arrest. "I was glad I went, because I needed to get away from everyone and I didn't know how to do that. And I learned a lot there."