Chris Brown, who was convicted of assaulting Rihanna after he copped a plea bargain with the prosecutor in June, was scheduled to be sentenced in court yesterday here in LA. Apparently, the ruling judge wants to ensure that Brown‘s punishment is comprised of community labor (ie. cleaning public streets) rather than community service (ie. showing up at charity events) and because she could not be assured that her plans for his labor would be fulfilled in his home state of Virgina (where he will serve out his probation/labor) she postponed the sentencing until she could be satisfied:
A judge has delayed sentencing R&B singer Chris Brown on an assault charge to seek more input from Virginia authorities about whether Brown could do community labor in that state. Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg said at a hearing Wednesday she will sentence Brown on Aug. 27 in the beating of Rihanna, who did not attend the hearing. With Brown in the courtroom, the judge met in her chambers with a prosecutor and defense attorney briefly before Brown’s scheduled sentencing. When she emerged, Schnegg said Virginia had yet to say if it could accommodate her requirement that Brown serve community labor, rather than community service. The judge has said she wants Brown to do community work comparable to graffiti removal or roadside cleanup. The Virginia Department of Corrections said earlier that it typically doesn’t consider whether to supervise a person on probation until after they are sentenced. The 20-year-old Brown pleaded guilty in June to one count of felony assault stemming from the altercation with his then-girlfriend. A plea deal calls for him to serve five years of probation and six months of community labor.
Despite Brown‘s videotaped apology last month, I still think he has much to be sorry and pay for. I am very relieved to hear that the judge is taking his punishment very seriously and is working to ensure that the young man is forced to WORK for his punishment. Community service is practically a joke, especially when it is used on celebs as punishment. I think 6 months of hard labor cleaning up the community streets might do the lad some good. While I personally believe that he’s getting off easy with any punishment that doesn’t involve jail time, I’m somewhat satisfied to learn that his punishment won’t be a cakewalk. We’ll see if that is actually the case.
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I didn’t even realize community service (showing up at events) could be considered part of a punishment. He should be forced to work at a shelter for abused women (who agree to take him on) to see how actions like his destroy lives. I hope he spends the rest of his life feeling guilty and remorseful every time he sees her face.
I think his punishment should be hard labor! I am also thinking he should work with battered women.I think after working with these woman for 6 months may help him think alittle harder before he raises his hand to hit another women or choke,bite her.
That wouldn’t be physically hard work just emotionally hard.
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I’m from VA and can tell you that Tappahannock, where he’s from, doesn’t really have much to clean up… near by Newport News could use some help, but he might just run into the likes of Michael Vick, and guess where that would go :o)
Also, I’ve worked with battered women and can tell you that the last thing any battered woman wants around is a woman beater, no matter how ‘rehabilitated’ and ‘regretful’ he may be.
Finally, I’m still reluctant to think that he just beat her out of nowhere. There have been many reports that she started the fight with her diva-ness and actually hit him first. Regardless, hitting anyone is wrong, but if she was such the victim that the media makes her out to be, why doesn’t she use the power of her voice to speak out against dating violence????? She spends all that time pushing cosmetics, maybe she could support a cause that actually matters?
I’m glad he’s getting served. I agree with the idea of having him work in an abused women’s shelter. I think that would be a very valuable insight into his future to never make that mistake again.
I believe in him entirely.
At this stage I’m also glad to see he’s taking his actions seriously. I know that a 2-minute video doesn’t seem like a lot but when you’re a celebrity it is more than just a 2-minute video. He was listening to his attorneys. I don’t see him running away, I never did see him run away from it.
I do, I believe in Chris Brown.
And for the record, I also don’t believe that he and Rihanna are over. I think they’re done for right now, but I wouldn’t be shocked to see them together again in the future. This is, if we’re taking bets.