Rehabilitation
might be looking pretty good for Chris Brown now as the embattled singer was
remanded to custody pending a previously scheduled probation violation hearing
on April 23, as E! News reported.
He was arrested Friday after reportedly being kicked
out of the residential treatment facility where he had been staying. A warrant
had urgently been issued for his arrest because he illegally leave the rehabilitation
room. Chris Brown’s mother, Joyce Hawkins, started sobbing after hearing her
son being ordered back to jail.
Attorney Mark Geragos whispered into Hawkins’ ear,
seemingly in an attempt to console her.
Chris, wearing a county-issued orange jumpsuit, was
in shackles when he was led into court today, a request by Geragos to let his
client wear civilian clothes in the face of all the cameras having been denied.
On Friday, the probation department submitted a three-page report outlining the
ways in which Chris had violated program rules and was not compliant with the
program.
Reported fractions included making a “provocative
statement” during a morning reflection class (allegedly boasting, “I’m good
with guns and knives”), touching elbows/standing close to a female client and
issues concerning a drug test. Deeming Chris “troubled,” L.A. County Superior
Court James Brandlin, who has been overseeing Chris’s recent back-and-forth
with the court, sent him back to the slammer without bail despite Geragos’
insistence to the court that holding the artist is a “waste of judicial resources.”
The attorney argued that Chris should be housed in an
off-site facility, not jail. Before his April 23 hearing, meanwhile, a trial date
of April 17 is set for Chris’s misdemeanor assault case in Washington, D.C. He
previously refused a plea deal because, he was not guilty of the crime.
The felony probation violation charge Chris is facing
in L.A. regards the five years of probation he was sentenced to in 2009 for
assaulting her Ex-Lover Rihanna.
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