Chris Brown gets 1,000 extra hours community

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Singer Chris Brown was
ordered to perform 1,000 hours community
service Friday after his probation stemming
from the 2009 assault on his then girlfriend
Rihanna was restored, officials said.
The 24-year-old R&B star’s probation was
revoked last month after he was hit with
misdemeanor charges following a minor traffic
accident.
Those charges were dismissed on Thursday and
on Friday Los Angeles Superior Court judge
James Brandlin restored his probation.
The reinstated probation order was conditional
on Brown completing 1,000 hours of
community labor, in addition to the 180 days
he had already been ordered to perform.
Judge Brandlin said Brown would be put to
work in one of four programs — highway
clean-up, beach clean-up, graffiti removal or a
program run by the probation department.
The order came after prosecutors questioned
whether Brown had in fact completed the
initial 180-day period of community service he
was sentenced to. They cited “significant
discrepancies” in his work record.
However the singer’s lawyer contested the
allegation, saying prosecutors “chose to ignore
the actual evidence in an effort to find
someone, anyone, to say he was not working.”
In 2009 Brown pleaded guilty to assaulting
fellow singer Rihanna earlier that year on the
eve of the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.

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