Lindsay Lohan's rehab at Betty Ford Center approved by judge

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Actress Lindsay Lohan is showered with gold glitter as she walks with her attorney, Mark Heller, into Los Angeles County Superior Court. She has been charged with three misdemeanor counts stemming from a car crash in 2012 on Pacific Coast Highway. (Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press)

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Lindsay Lohan arrives for her probation hearing. The case stemmed from two drunk-driving arrests in 2007, in addition to reckless driving and being under the influence of cocaine. Story (Mark Ralston / AFP/Getty Images)

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Lindsay Lohan and her attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, argued that the actress thought she was in compliance with the court-ordered alcohol program. Story (David McNew / Getty Images)

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Deputy Dist. Atty. Danette Meyers, right, and defense attorney Shawn Chapman Holley speak at the hearing. Lindsay Lohan’s probation was revoked in May after she missed a scheduled hearing. Story (David McNew / Getty Images)

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Lohan turns to lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley during the hearing. Story (David McNew / Getty Images)

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Actress Lindsay Lohan and lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley attend a probation revocation hearing at the Beverly Hills Courthouse. Lohan was found in violation of her probation for the August 2007 no-contest plea to drug and alcohol charges stemming from two separate traffic accidents. She is scheduled to surrender on July 20 to serve her 90 day jail sentence. (David McNew / Getty Images)

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Lindsay Lohan arrives at the Beverly Hills Courthouse to begin serving her 90-day sentence for a probation violation. (John W. Adkisson / Los Angeles Times)

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Lindsay Lohan walks through confetti as she arrives at the courthouse. After Lohan’s court appearance, a couple of unmarked cars pulled up to the side of the courthouse to take her to jail. Paparazzi crowded around the vehicles to snap pictures through the tinted windows (Mark Ralston / AFP/Getty Images)

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Media cover the arrival of Lindsay Lohan at the Beverly Hills Courthouse. (David McNew / Getty Images)

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Dina Lohan, at left, accompanies daughter Lindsay at the Beverly Hills Courthouse as she surrenders for a jail sentence. (David McNew / Getty Images)

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Lindsay Lohan is shown in court before being taken to Lynwood’s Century Regional Detention Facility. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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Lindsay Lohan is accompanied by sheriff’s deputies into the Beverly Hills courthouse, where a judge ordered her to be taken into custody without bail. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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Lindsay Lohan is escorted by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies into the Beverly Hills courthouse. (Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images)

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A car presumably carrying Lindsay Lohan (behind the white towel) is driven away from the courthouse in Beverly Hills after a judge orders her to jail. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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Michael Lohan, father of Lindsay Lohan, is interviewed as he leaves the Beverly Hills Courthouse. (Nick Ut / Associated Press)

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Lindsay Lohan arrives at Airport Courthouse, where she was charged Wednesday with one count of felony grand theft for allegedly stealing a $2,500 necklace from a Venice jewelry store. (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)

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Lindsay Lohan arrives at Airport Courthouse. The actress could face a couple of years in jail on the grand theft charge, but experts say that’s unlikely. (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)

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Lindsay Lohan arrives at Airport Courthouse for a court proceeding on felony grand theft charges on Feb. 23. About 40 paparazzi stood ready by the concrete walkway and nine television trucks parked nearby. In the air, a chopper for KTLA followed Lohan’s drive from the Venice home where she is living to the courthouse. (Mike Nelson / EPA)

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Lohan sits in court with her attorney for a hearing related to allegations that she stole a $2,500 necklace from a Venice jewelry store. “This case does involve jail time -- period,” Judge Keith Schwartz told her. “If you plead in front of me -- if this case resolves in front of me -- you are going to jail. Period. It may be an issue as to amount of time.” (Paul Buck / EPA)

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Lindsay Lohan shows up at the Airport Courthouse April 22 to hear the judge’s decision in the alleged necklace-theft case. (Toby Canham / Getty Images)

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The judge ruled that Lohan violated her probation by failing to return the necklace immediately, and ordered her to spend 120 days in jail and serve 480 hours of community service at a downtown women’s center and the Los Angeles County morgue. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles County prosecutor Danette Meyers plans to appeal the judge’s decision to reduce the charge against Lindsay Lohan from a felony to a misdemeanor. Lohan was bailed out of jail late Friday, less than five hours after she was taken into custody, and will stand trial June 3. (Valerie Macon / Getty Images)

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Lindsay Lohan arrives at court for her probation progress report hearing. (Toby Canham / Getty Images)

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Lindsay Lohan and her lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley, in court. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

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Lindsay Lohan listens as her attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, makes her case to the judge. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

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Lindsay Lohan is led away in handcuffs after her probation was revoked. Bail was set at $100,000, which Lohan posted in less than an hour. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

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Lindsay Lohan and her attorney Shawn Holley, sit in court during Lohan’s probation violation hearing at the Los Angeles Airport Courthouse. (Mario Anzuoni / Getty Images)

By Richard Winton

May 6, 2013 2:40 PM PT

An L.A. County Superior Court judge approved Lindsay Lohan’s request Monday to serve 90 days of rehab at the Betty Ford Center but said she must remain in the hospital wing of the famed facility.

The judge also allowed Los Angeles attorney Shawn Holley to replace New York lawyer Mark Heller as the actress’ legal counsel.

Judge James Dabney signed off on Lohan’s stay at Betty Ford for her 90 days of treatment ordered in a plea bargain regarding reckless driving and lying to police about a car crash. He said she must stay in the hospital wing because she will not be allowed to walk out or leave on a pass.
Holley made a brief appearance Monday in court for a procedure allowing her to formally assume the case from Heller, an attorney Lohan had hired a few months ago to replace Holley.

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After skipping out on entering a Newport Beach rehab facility and facing the prospect of arrest for violating her probation last Thursday, Lohan rehired Holley.

Lohan checked in Thursday to the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage. Lohan was on the verge of another arrest -- and jail -- if she did not go to rehab.

Holley, who represented Lohan for several years and managed to keep her out of jail in a jewelry theft case, was part of the O.J. Simpson defense team and is among Southern California’s top criminal defense attorneys.

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Santa Monica Deputy City Atty. Terry White, who prosecuted Lohan, said he learned that the actress spent just a few minutes at the Newport Beach Morningside Recovery center before leaving.

In court last week, Heller told Dabney that Lohan had started treatment at Morningside after opting not to go to a Long Island, N.Y., recovery center.

Lohan arrived at the Newport Beach facility after 11 a.m. and then left.

On Thursday, state officials said the Newport Beach facility was not licensed to provide residential drug or alcohol treatment; it is certified to operate as an outpatient clinic with sober living homes.

Heller told the judge the facility met all the conditions of Lohan’s plea agreement.

Lohan’s Porsche rear-ended a truck on Pacific Coast Highway on June 8, but she denied she was driving. She entered a no-contest plea in March and agreed to enter rehab, spend 18 months in psychotherapy and serve 30 days of community service.

Lohan spent several months in 2010 at Betty Ford, where an employee accused her of assault. Prosecutors declined to charge Lohan.

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