Grammy Award-winning
R&B singer Chris Brown was freed from custody Monday after facing a judge
on a charge that he punched a man who tried to pose in a photograph with him. Prosecutors reduced a
felony assault charge to a misdemeanor as a District of Columbia judge released
Brown, who exited the courthouse to cheers and flashed a peace sign to
supporters after more than a day and a half in custody.
Even with the reduced
charge, the assault case represents the latest legal trouble for the singer,
who remains on probation for assaulting his on-again, off-again girlfriend
Rihanna just before the 2009 Grammy Awards.
Brown and his
bodyguard, Chris Hollosy, were arrested early Sunday outside the W Hotel in
Washington after police responded to reports of a fight. A 20-year-old man told
police that he had tried to take a picture with Brown and two women when Brown
told him, "I ain't down with that gay s---t" and "I feel like
boxing," according to charging documents in the case. The man, identified
by police as Parker Isaac Adams of Beltsville, Md., said both Brown and Hollosy
punched him.
Brown's lawyer, Danny
Onorato, said outside court Monday that his client committed no crime.
"We understand
that his security acted to protect Mr. Brown and Mr. Brown's property as he was
authorized to do under District of Columbia law. We are confident that Mr.
Brown will be exonerated of any wrongdoing," he said.
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