Lost star Michelle Rodriguez has walked free from jail after serving just a fraction of her sentence.
The actress was released Los Angeles County women’s jail late Wednesday after serving just 18 days of a 180 day sentence.
Her early release angered the judge in her case who was adamant she should not get star treatment and should do the full sentence.
But despite making it clear that she wanted Rodriguez inside for the full time, the judge ultimately conceded at a release hearing that the sheriff controlled the jail.
Fast and The Furious star Rodriguez was released under an overcrowding program that allows nonviolent female inmates to serve as little as a tenth of their sentence. The same thing happened two years ago when Rodriguez served just one day of a 60-day jail sentence for probation violation.
Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore insisted that she did not get special treatment and as many as 50 women a day are released early. “She was treated the same way we do with all females because of the extent of overcrowding,” he said.
Rodriguez was sentenced in October for failing to prove she had done community service and for drinking while wearing an alcohol monitoring device. “The sheriff supports, obviously, the desire to have inmates serve their full sentence,” but the county has only one women’s jail and it is “bursting at the seams,” Whitmore said.
Rodriguez was on probation after pleading no contest to drunken driving, hit-and-run and driving on a suspended licence in connection with two Hollywood incidents in 2003.
While still on probation, she spent five days in a Hawaii jail in 2005 after pleading guilty to drunken driving there, which led to her one-day jail term in Los Angeles for probation violation.
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