With her giant doe eyes, pouty rosebud lips, and youthful nymph appearance, it's hard to picture Winona Ryder as anything other than a lovable movie star. But, Los Angeles prosecutors paint a different picture of the pale brunette fans affectionately call "Noni."

They say Ryder was caught red-handed on a store videotape stealing $4,700 worth of clothing from a Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills and carrying pain medication without a prescription on December 12. Ryder has pleaded not guilty to theft, burglary, vandalism and possession of a controlled substance.

Since then, the debate over the Academy Award nominee's guilt or innocence has raged on the Internet.

Sites like Freewinona.com, which was created the day of Ryder's arrest and is run by Y-Que Trading Post, a funky Los Angeles novelty store, have taken an adamant pro-Winona stance. The site sells "Free Winona" T-shirts and "I Paid for This Stuff" bags, maintains a message board devoted to the actress and has created a video of a tongue-in-cheek re-enactment of what may have happened that fateful day in Saks Fifth Avenue.

Supporters and detractors alike might want a "Free Winona" T-shirt.

Y-Que's owner, Billy Tsangares a.k.a. Billy T, said the store designs shirts with themes taken from the headlines, including shirts that say, "Free Miss Cleo Shaman of the People" and, "Blake Busted! Whodunnit?" But, he says, he felt the Ryder case was different. "A lotta times when we design t-shirts we're just parodying what's going on in the world of glamour and glitz," said Billy T. "But in this case the way things went down seemed really strange and from all the information I've seen I think she isn't guilty."

Many of the site's users agree. Billy T. describes the 4,000 people who visit a day as "strong fans" of Ryder and he has sold over 5,000 "Free Winona" t-shirts.

"What ever happened to equality?" a user with the screen name Betsy Ross wrote on the site's message board. "They're all just making a big scene out of this, while putting their reputations on the line, for absolutely no reason … She was just the innocent victim of a random act of senseless accusation."

Many have also stood up for Ryder on the actress's many fan pages.

"It seems a lot of people are already convinced of her guilt before the whole truth has come out. Whatever happened to being innocent until proven guilty?" posted the creator of the Winona Ryder Film Page.

But others are not so convinced. Soon after Freewinona.com began, a clothing company named Americanswag.com started Convictwinona.com. It features "Convict Winona" T-shirts and stickers. The company was unavailable for comment.

Anti-Winona sentiment has also run high in message boards throughout the net.

"She's rich and she steals stuff as if she can't buy something," wrote a user of the message board Moviething.com with the screen name Mark Gregory Lopez. "I think that she just wanted to be in the spot light, even if it meant being in the spot light by doing something extremely stupid."

But Billy T. says he welcomes the criticism.

"It's only natural that some people would think she did it," he said. "If it were straight-forward there would be no need for a trial...I guess we won't really know until then."

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