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Actress Lindsay Lohan has had numerous legal troubles over the past eight years, including arrests for drunken driving, reckless driving and shoplifting. Here are six of her booking mug shots, from top left to bottom right: July 2007, November 2007, July 2010, September 2010, October 2011 and March 2013. Lohan is finally off probation after completing 125 hours of community service.

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Lohan poses for a mug shot in March 2013 after accepting 90 days in a "locked-in" drug rehab facility for misdemeanor charges. Her legal troubles trace back to two drunken-driving arrests in 2007.

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Lohan appears in court with her attorneys Anthony Falangetti, left, and Mark Heller in Los Angeles in March 2013. She entered pleas of no contest on two misdemeanor charges relating to a 2012 traffic accident, and she did not challenge the finding that she violated her shoplifting probation with those convictions.

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Lohan attends her probation hearing in March 2012 in Los Angeles. Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner took Lohan off probation from a 2007 drunken driving case and said that she will no longer have to meet with a probation officer or appear in court on her 2011 shoplifting case, as long as she obeys all laws through May 2014.

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Lohan leaves a progress report hearing at Venice Airport Branch Courthouse in Los Angeles in January 2012.

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Lohan's mug shot from October 2011 after she was arrested for probation violations. She was released after posting $100,000 bail.

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Lohan is led away in handcuffs at her probation progress report hearing in Los Angeles in October 2011.

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Lohan cries next to her lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley as she is sentenced to 90 days in jail by Judge Marsha Revel during her hearing at the Beverly Hills Courthouse in July 2010. Lohan violated her probation in two 2007 drunk driving cases.

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Lohan poses for a booking photo after being arrested on DUI charges at Lynwood Jail in November 2007. Lohan voluntarily reported to the facility to serve her minimum 24-hour jail sentence that was part of a plea bargain for two DUI charges.

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Lohan's mug shot from July 2007 for driving under the influence.

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Lindsay Lohan in trouble

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NEW: There was nothing for her to plead to, her attorney said after a court hearing

NEW: Lohan didn't attend the hearing

She is accused of punching a woman at the Avenue Lounge in Manhattan, New York

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Charges against actress Lindsay Lohan in an alleged Manhattan nightclub fight “are not ready to proceed at this time,” her attorney said Monday after a hearing at New York criminal court.

Lohan did not attend the hearing because there was nothing for her to plead to, said her attorney, Mark Heller.

“It’s my opinion that this case will ultimately be declined for prosecution, but it will be several weeks before the district attorney makes that decision,” Heller said.

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Lohan was charged with misdemeanor assault after allegedly punching a woman early in the morning of November 29, 2012.

She is accused of hitting Tiffany Mitchell, 28, of Palm Beach, Florida, at the trendy Avenue Lounge in Manhattan’s Chelsea district.

Heller said Lohan didn’t hit anyone.

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“All she did was verbally request her privacy,” he said.

He accused Mitchell of “seeking her 15 minutes of fame” and predicted Lohan would be exonerated.

The case is the latest legal trouble for the 26-year-old actress, whose struggle with drugs and alcohol has seen her bounce in and out of court 19 times and to five rehabilitation facilities since 2007.

Lohan is scheduled to appear at a probation violation hearing on January 15 in California.

She was on probation for a 2011 conviction on charges related to the theft of a necklace, but that probation was jeopardized in November 2012 when the city attorney in Santa Monica, California, filed four charges against her in connection with a car crash last summer.

In the Santa Monica case, Lohan is accused of giving false information to a police officer, obstructing or resisting a police officer in the performance of his duty, and reckless driving, according to the city attorney’s office.

The charges, all misdemeanors, stem from a car crash while Lohan was on her way to the set for the filming of “Liz & Dick,” a Lifetime movie that aired last year.

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CNN’s Michael Martinez in Los Angeles contributed to this report.