Chris Brown Avoids Jail Over Broken Probation Jul 16th 2013, 09:52
Chris Brown has managed to stay out of jail, despite having his probation revoked by a judge in Los Angeles.
Superior Court Judge James Brandlin made the decision after reviewing the details of an alleged hit-and-run accident involving the singer and his behaviour afterwards.
Deputy District Attorney Mary Murray did not ask for him to be jailed, and the judge allowed him to remain free on his own recognisance.
Another hearing is set for August 16.
The singer has been on felony probation since the 2009 beating of his former girlfriend Rihanna. But he has not stayed completely out of trouble.
In February, the Sheriff's Department investigated a fight between him and singer Frank Ocean at a recording studio, but Ocean decided not to pursue a battery case.
The same month, Brown crashed his Porsche while being chased by paparazzi.
Brown arrived in court with family members Then last month he was charged with the hit-and-run offences and driving without a valid licence.
He is suspected of rear-ending a car that was stopped at a red light in the San Fernando Valley on May 12 and refusing to give the other driver his licence or insurance information.
A woman in the car with Brown provided her driver's licence, according to police.
But Brown did not provide his until his lawyer had an investigator deliver an expired insurance card to the other driver several days later.
The driver of the other car told police she had recently arrived in the country and did not know the correct procedures.
The woman, identified in court documents only as Olga G, said she called her husband to find out what to do.
At first, she said Brown was polite. But as she continued to demand identification, a confrontation arose, she said in court documents.
In her written statement, the woman said when Brown refused to provide his identification, she took a picture of the couple "and then they went ballistic".
Brown with Rihanna at a basketball game in December 2012 She said Brown began shouting expletives and grabbed for her camera.
"I jumped back, the girl screamed 'Don't touch her. Don't touch her'," she said.
"I was so shocked that I was speechless.
"Just a moment ago he was a nice guy. After screaming some insulting nonsense for a while longer, he slammed a door and drove away fast and noisy."
The woman did not know the identity of the man who hit her car until a friend called and told her after reading about it on the internet.
Scott Foresman Science
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