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Fans Hope to Free Michelle Rodriguez

Wed., Oct. 24, 2007 9:23 AM PDT by Gina Serpe

It may not have worked wonders for Paris Hilton, but Michelle Rodriguez's fan base is hoping an online petition will help lighten the actress' lockdown load.

Launched by the Webmaster of her MySpace page and accessible via both her blog and official site, Free Michelle Rodriguez aims to appeal to the lenient side of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Daviann L. Mitchell, who last month sentenced the former Lost star to 180 days behind bars for violating probation in her DUI case.

According to its creator, Leigh Lewallen, the petition was set up in response to fans who were "outraged" by the lengthy sentence, issued after Rodriguez falsified documents showing she had fulfilled her community service quota, and for those who "just want to show love."

"There is no lesson that Michelle Rodriguez could learn in 180 days that she could learn in 18, or even 8," reads the petition, addressed directly to Mitchell. "We do not believe that the imprisonment of this women [sic] is a demonstration of justice nor a fair punishment for her crimes. She is a good person.

"The Michelle of today is not the same Michelle of two years ago who committed that second DUI, or even the same Michelle of a year ago."

No word on whether the petition brain trust thinks she's the same Michelle from just two months ago, who submitted a false probation document.

In any case, the Free Michelle supporters lay out several reasons why the 29-year-old doesn't belong behind bars.

"She doesn't walk around with bodyguards, demand lists, nor a team of publicists," the petition states. "The Michelle we know has a plan to develop a ranger program...The Michelle we know is in the process of writing an adventure movie for kids...This is the Michelle we know, plus so much more that you never got to see in your short time in a court room [sic] with her."

Okay, so the statement probably wasn't vetted by her lawyers. But the petition, posted Oct. 12 and signed by 658 supporters and counting, implores the judge to consider the repercussions of locking up Rodriguez.

"We are asking, nay begging you to have mercy on Ms. Rodriguez and reverse or lesson [sic] your decision for her to serve so much time behind bars. She is a good soul and has much to offer the world that cannot be achieved if imprisoned for such an amount of time. Please. Please rethink and lesson [sic] this sentence."

Rodriguez, who's currently filming James Cameron's sci-fi epic Avatar in New Zealand, has yet to comment on the petition, she has made a point of directing fans' attention to another online document.

Earlier this week, the actress trumpeted the results of an Oct. 18 battery of drug tests, which appeared on TMZ.

Per the toxicology test, carried out at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Rodriguez's bloodstream didn't have any trace of 10 common substances, including alcohol. The report made its way online after blogger Perez Hilton filed an item hinting that the actress had been partying quite hard in the wake of her sentencing.

So far, however, Mitchell seems unswayed by any of this, and Rodriguez is still due to report to a Los Angeles County jail to begin serving her six-month sentence by Dec. 24.