Lindsay Lohan needs a court appeal, not just sober living.
Her dad, Michael Lohan, spoke out about his starlet daughter Sunday, insisting that it's a conflict of interest that Lindsay checked into a sober living facility founded by her new lawyer, Robert Shapiro.
Instead, he said his 24-year-old daughter really needs "a lot of prayers" and an attorney who will appeal her July 6 sentence from Judge Marsha Revel for three consecutive 30-day jail stints for violating probation for a pair of 2007 DUI busts.
The troubled Hollywood party-girl is slated to report to Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif. on Tuesday.
But before any of that could go down, LiLo on Wednesday checked into Pickford Lofts, a Los Angeles sober house that uses meetings, meditation, and the 12-step program to address addiction.
Ex-girlfriend Samantha Ronson visited her there Saturday and mom Dina dropped in Friday, according to TMZ.com.
The program was founded by Shapiro, who famously represented O.J. Simpson.
"It's a conflict of interest if he's putting her in his own sober house but not doing anything for her legally," Michael Lohan said of Shapiro, whose son Brent died of a drug overdose in 2005. "An attorney is ethically responsible for defending their client to the best of their ability."
"But when you have an attorney like Robert Shapiro, who went through so much with his own son and knows the effects of prescription medications, it doesn't make sense that he did nothing to appeal her case and get her off the meds before she goes to jail," Michael Lohan told the Daily News on Sunday.
"Everyone knows that when you go into the jail or prison system, if you're on prescriptions written by a doctor, they give them to you in prison," he said, adding that jail won't help Lindsey unless she gets addiction treatment.
"It's a continuous cycle. Here you are punishing a girl because she has a drug problem, or at least for things that resulted from a drug problem and not doing anything to fix it. I'm very upset that Robert Shapiro did nothing to appeal the case."
In response, Shapiro said, "I will wait to court to address all issues."
Lohan added that it was "sickening" to see his daughter sentenced to jail.
"There were a lot of mixed emotions in that courtroom," he said of the sentencing.
"First of all, hurt for her, and hurt that I saw the same people around her who enabled her, all sitting right up in front of me and behind me. It was sickening."
"The hardest part was that she was blindsided. She really didn't think she was going to get jail time. When she did her speech, I could see the actress Lindsay coming out.
"No father wants to see his daughter go through that. It broke my heart. The floodgates opened."
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