Chris Brown Jail Sentence Conflict
It was reported that Chris Brown admitted he violated his probation, and had been sentenced to serve an additional 131 days in jail, but there seems to be a conflict in reports!
CelebNMusic247.com has learned that several news outlets are reporting opposite outcomes for Chris Brown’s sentencing.
Earlier today PageSix reported that Breezy was being sentenced to another 131 days behind bars after it appeared that he admitted to committing to a crime in Washington, D.C., last year.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James R. Brandlin sentenced Brown to serve 365 days in custody, but gave him credit for 234 days he has spent in rehab and jail.
The Grammy winner has been in custody since mid-March, when he was arrested after being dismissed from a court-ordered rehab sentence.
The singer faces a misdemeanor assault charge in Washington after a man accused the singer of hitting him outside a hotel in the nation’s capital.
Though it is unclear how many days in custody Brown will actually serve. Brown has been under court supervision after pleading guilty in 2009 to beating pop singer Rihanna, his then-girlfriend.
Now here is where things get conflicted and twisted because TMZ is claiming that Brown did NOT admit to any kind of assault regarding to the alleged victim in his D.C. criminal trial.
In fact, CelebNMusic247.com has learned that Brown’s attorney Mark Geragos tells TMZ when Brown admitted to a probation violation Friday in the Rihanna case … it did NOT constitute a confession in his assault case. Geragos says all Brown did was admit he violated probation in D.C. and was NOT MORE specific.
Geragos tells us … HE — not Chris — conceded there was a factual basis to conclude his client violated probation based on the police report.
What’s more, Geragos says there’s no way the D.C. prosecutor could use Brown’s admission as a confession, because the standard of proof in a criminal case is much higher than in a probation hearing.
Geragos says he merely told the Rihanna judge it’s “more likely than not” that Chris screwed up in D.C. In a criminal trial, the prosecutor must show Chris screwed up beyond a reasonable doubt.
As we reported … even though Chris was ordered to serve another 131 days behind bars for the probation violation … with time served and jail overcrowding, he could get out in a matter of days.
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