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Lohan, 51, was sentenced in Nassau County District Court after
pleading guilty to the charges in April.
She had initially pleaded not guilty after state police pulled
her over last September and said she was driving more than 20
miles per hour over the speed limit. She had about twice the
legal limit of alcohol in her bloodstream, police said.
Lohan lives in the town of Merrick on Long Island's south shore,
about 20 miles (32 km) east of Manhattan.
Judge Andrew Engel also ordered Lohan to pay more than $3,000 in
fines and fees and to take part in a drinking driver program.
"I just want to put this behind me," she told reporters outside
the courthouse.
Mark Heller, her lawyer, said the relatively lenient sentence
reflected that Lohan's drunken speeding was a "one-time,
isolated event that took place on the occasion of her birthday
celebration."
Lohan's daughter Lindsay has been caught driving while drunk on
several occasions and has been in rehab, sometimes at the order
of a court, at least six times in the last few years, hampering
a once-successful acting career she began as a child.
(Reporting by Jonathan Allen; Editing by Doina Chiacu and Jim
Loney)
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