Lindsay Lohan’s charge reduced in necklace theft case but is sentenced to 4 months in jail for violating her probation

[HMG Celebrity News] – In the seemingly endless saga that is the Lindsay Lohan theft case, the actress has won a significant battle, but will got to jail anyway unless she wins an appeal.  Light fingered Lindsay allegedly lifted a $2,500 necklace from a Venice, California, jewelry store on January 22. The owner reported the theft to the Los Angeles Police Department, which later investigated the accusation and presented evidence to the District Attorney’s office. But after prosecutors laid out their case against the actress today, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner reduced the grand theft case down to a misdemeanor.  Word before the trial was that Lindsay Lohan’s lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley would bring in an expert that would help prove the $2,500 necklace was in fact worth well less than $1,000, thus making the alleged theft a misdemeanor.  Lindsay did not come out unscathed though as Judge Sautner ruled that prosecutors had shown that Lohan violated her probation and refused to dismiss the necklace theft case against Lohan, so the trial date was set for June 3 and a pretrial date for May 11. Lohan must be present at both hearings but she might have to do so in a prison suit.  After reconvening this afternoon, Judge Sautner sentenced Lindsay to 120 days in jail for the probation violation and 480 hours of community service at a downtown women’s center and the Los Angeles County morgue when she gets out.  Lohan’s legal team plans to immediately  appeal the probation sentence according to the Los Angles Times, while the Prosecutor Danette Meyers said she will seek to overturn Judge Sautner’s decision on the misdemeanor charge