LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge reinstated Chris Brown’s revoked probation Friday and gave the singer a new sentence to perform 1,000 hours of community labor such as cleaning beaches or highways, removing graffiti or performing other chores assigned by the probation department. Brown’s current legal troubles are the latest repercussions of his arrest four years ago for assaulting his former girlfriend, Rihanna. The popular R&B singer sat in a courtroom for nearly an hour as his lawyer, Mark Geragos, and a prosecutor shuttled in and out of the judge’s chambers, with Geragos apparently seeking his client’s approval for a plan to keep him from facing more serious consequences. Superior Court Judge James Brandlin finally emerged and announced that an agreement had been reached. Deputy District Attorney Mary Murray withdrew a request to rescind Brown’s probation because of a hit-and-run charge that was dismissed in another court Thursday. Brandlin then told Brown he must perform 1,000 hours of ...
Singer Chris Brown (L., with attorney Mark Geragos) attends a probation progress hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court Monday - to find out his probation from his 2009 assault case against Rihanna was revoked. A Los Angeles judge has revoked Chris Brown’s probation, but the singer was not ordered to jail. Brown’s lawyer suggested Monday that perhaps the matter will be resolved informally without a major probation hearing.
