Singer Chris Brown expected again in a D.C. courtroom,
this time for a plea hearing
Security at D.C. Superior Court is expected to be heightened
Tuesday as R&B singer Chris Brown is scheduled to appear for
a possible plea deal in his nearly 11-month-old misdemeanor
simple assault case.
The 25-year-old Grammy Award-winning singer is scheduled to
appear for a brief hearing that begins at 9 a.m.
It is unclear, however, if the plea deal will be accepted.
In January and June, Brown and his attorneys rejected plea
deals on a misdemeanor assault charge. At the time of the
incident, Brown was on probation in California for a 2009
attack on his then-girlfriend, singer Rihanna. Brown has
since resolved that case after spending about four months
in a California jail this year for violating his probation.
Prosecutors allege that Brown, along with his friend and
bodyguard Christopher Hollosy, 35, struck Parker Adams, 25,
of Beltsville, Md., after Adams tried to take a photograph
of himself with the entertainer outside the W Hotel downtown
Oct. 27, following a party during Howard University’s
homecoming festivities.
After a two-day trial in April, during which Adams and two
other witnesses testified that Brown and Hollosy struck him,
Hollosy was found guilty. Brown was scheduled to go on trial
later that month, but the trial was delayed. Brown and
Hollosy are still subject to a $1.5 million civil lawsuit
Adams filed. Hollosy’s sentencing was delayed until November
after his attorney notified a judge that there was
“new evidence” in the case. Details of that purported evidence
wasn’t made public. Brown was scheduled to go on trial later
that month, but the trial was delayed.
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