Lindsay Lohan is due at a Los Angeles court docket on Wednesday to face a cost of felony grand theft involving a $2,500 necklace that a jewelry retailer had reported missing.

The 24-12 months-outdated actress earlier this month pleaded not responsible and had mentioned on her Twitter page that she "would never steal."

Lohan is on probation stemming from a 2007 drunk driving case. If convicted of her present felony cost, she could be despatched to state prison for up to three years, which would mark her fourth stint behind bars.

Lohan has for the past few months been forced to endure random drug and alcohol testing to make sure she has not violated her probation. Her lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley, has maintained the actress' test outcomes have come again clean.

Lohan stated on her Twitter page final week that she had not visited a Los Angeles evening club, as instructed by on-line experiences, adding: "I take my sobriety seriously. please dont imagine this accusations. i do know the principles and i wouldnt risk probation."

Lohan is accused of stealing the necklace from Kamofie and Co., a store located in the Venice space of Los Angeles on January 22, three weeks after she was released from court-ordered rehab.

The Los Angeles Police Department issued a search warrant on February 2 for Lohan's home to attempt to discover the necklace. The item was returned to police before it was served.

Her lawyer has said the actress' case is "completely defensible" but that they "will entertain a dialogue concerning a plea if it means no jail so that she will transfer forward together with her restoration and her career."

Lohan had relocated to the Venice space after she underwent therapy at the Betty Ford Center. Her rehab stint was a part of a punishment handed down for violating the phrases of her probation stemming from her drunk driving case.

Lohan pleaded responsible in 2007 to being underneath the affect of cocaine and no contest to driving with a blood-alcohol stage above 0.08 percent and reckless driving.

Lohan's three stints behind bars have every lasted eighty four minutes, 14 days and 15 hours - the final of which occurred in September after she failed a drug take a look at and wrote about it on her Twitter page.

The stolen necklace case is the second energetic police investigation that might ship Lohan to jail if a judge determines she has violated her probation

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