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A new Beverly Hills Judge was assigned to Lindsay Lohan's case and it looks like the re-assignment has worked in her favor. According to the Los Angeles Times, the 24-year-old actress was released from the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center after completing just 22 days of her 90-day court ordered rehab.

Yet some people may argue that the pop star isn't getting off too easy for violating her probation in the DUI case. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Elden Fox ordered that Lindsay Lohan will remain on supervised probation until November. At a hearing last week, the judge stated that the actress must comply with random drug testing twice a week, participate in psychotherapy four times a week and meet with counselors five times a week for the remainder of her probation. If Lindsay Lohan misses or fails a drug test, she will be jailed for 30 days.

The Grammy Award-winning singer Faith Evans was arrested on Saturday night while passing through a DUI checkpoint at Washington and Lincoln Boulevards near Marina del Rey. KTLA News reports that the singer's car was impounded after the arrest and that she was released from jail on bail the next morning.

Faith Evans could be formally could misdemeanor DUI charges, if prosecutors decide to formally charge the singer with the drunk driving crime. In such a case, the R&B singer would likely have a Los Angeles DUI for representation in court.

It looks like Lindsay Lohan isn't the only celebrity to get out of jail early in a DUI case. The New York Daily News reports that rapper DMX was recently released from an L.A county jail after serving just 18 days of his 90 day sentence.

DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, surrendered himself to the Los Angeles County authorities on July 26 for his probation violation in connection with a 2002 reckless driving conviction. The rapper was initially charged with DUI, but was able to reach a plea deal with prosecutors so that he could only plead guilty to reckless driving. Yet, it seems that there's just no room for drunk driving offenders in the L.A jails due to jail overcrowding. As we reported in an earlier blog post, men convicted of non-violent crimes typically serve only 50 percent of their sentence, where women convicted of non-violent crimes will serve only 20 percent of their jail sentence.

It's official. Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel has removed herself from Lindsay Lohan's DUI case after lawyers complained that the judge had been in contact with outside sources involving the actress' legal dispute without notifying lawyers ahead of time.

The Los Angeles Times reports that one particular complaint among Lindsay Lohan's Los Angeles DUI attorney was that Judge Marsha Revel reportedly spoke to the Morningside Recovery rehab before selecting it for the actress, even though it was not one of the facilities recommended by the experts involved in the case. The actress' lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley was able to change the Morningside facility to the UCLA Medical Center.

Eight years have passed since rapper DMX was arrested for driving under the influence in L.A County, but he is just now serving time over the alleged drunk driving incident.

According to MTV News, DMX's Los Angeles DUI attorney Aja Southern was able to lower the initial DUI charge to a reckless driving charge through a plea deal. He was sentenced to probation, but when he violated the terms of the probation last January, he was sentenced to 90 days in jail.

Lindsay Lohan is now free from her jail cell after serving just 13 days of her 90 day jail sentence. But Lindsay Lohan won't be completely free until she completes her 90 days of court-ordered rehab in Los Angeles. Her sentence consisting of rehab and jail time all stems from violating her probation on a 2007 DUI conviction. 

The early jail release of the Mean Girls star comes from her good behavior as a non-violent offender, who often serve less than a quarter of their sentence due to jail overcrowding. CNN reports that that Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel ordered the actress to start the alcohol rehabilitation program at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center within 24 hours of leaving jail.

Actor Chris Klein, who plays Oz in the American Pie series is trying to fight his DUI most recent DUI charge and avoid going to jail. E! Online reports that if the actor is convicted of the drunk driving charge, it would be the second DUI on his record. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor DUI charge back in 2005.

How does Chris Klein plan to get out of this legal mess? For starts, actor Chris Klein is seeking both legal help and mental health. He has the high-profile Los Angeles DUI attorney Blair Berk working on his case. Blair Berk has also represented Mel Gibson, Cameron Diaz, Lindsay Lohan and Queen Latifah in their criminal cases. Chris Klein also recently spent 30 days at the Cirque Lodge rehab center in Park City, Utah so that he could stay dry and deal with his alcohol addiction.

Lindsay Lohan is set to be released from jail soon, even though her jail sentence has just begun. The Mean Girls star entered the slammer last Tuesday, but RadarOnline reports that the actress may be out of jail before the end of this month.

But wait, Lindsay Lohan hasn't even spent a week behind bars...Wasn't she sentenced to 90 days in jail? This is probably what many people around are now asking. Due to good behavior, the actress' jail sentence was lowered from 90 days to just 51 days. In California, non-violent female offenders are only doing about 25 percent of their sentence due to jail overcrowding. This brings her sentence down to about 13 days, with the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Office initially saying that Lindsay Lohan would probably be released around August 1 or August 2.

Lindsay Lohan seems desperate to get out of her jail sentence, but the clock is ticking down and she doesn't have much time to file for an appeal. According to E! Online, the actress has a new lawyer that is supposed to be representing her after Los Angeles DUI Attorney Shawn Chapman Holley stepped down from the DUI case.

Robert Shapiro, who is best known as one of the lawyers that represented O.J. Simpson in his murder trial, plans to be the new attorney for Lindsay Lohan. The lawyer switch will not be official until the judge overseeing the case signs off on the counsel switch.

Los Angeles DUI defense lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley has officially resigned as the attorney representing Lindsay Lohan in her ongoing DUI case, but went out with a bang calling her client's 90 day jail sentence "harsh and unfair," according to New York Daily News.

It's not exactly clear why the Los Angeles DUI attorney has quit the case. Perhaps she's fed up with Lindsay Lohan's behavior and her client not following the terms of her probation or maybe Shawn Chapman Holley just doesn't feel that the actress can successfully appeal the sentence.