A Los Angeles judge last week ordered Actress Lindsay Lohan to spend time at the county morgue and a hospital emergency room as part of her sentence on a misdemeanor drunken driving charge. Lohan last year was sentenced to one day and served 84 minutes as part of a plea deal. But to the casual observer, spending less than two hours in jail followed by two four-hour days at the morgue seem like light punishment for Lohan's crime.

As with Paris Hilton before her, there's a sense that Lohan is getting a better deal than the average citizen. But consider: