Chris Brown relieved as Judge Ends his 6 years Probation case

A judge has ended Chris Brown's felony probation in an assault case over his 2009 attack on pop singer Rihanna.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James R Brandlin said Friday that the R&B singer had completed the terms of his sentence, which included community labor, domestic violence counseling and rehab.
The relief was palpable on the face of the singer, who turned up in court with purple hair wearing a suit jacket over a t-shirt.


Brown has been subject to scrutiny by court and probation officials after pleading guilty to attacking Rihanna, his girlfriend at the time, hours before the 2009 Grammy Awards. The attack destroyed Brown's squeaky clean image and he has in recent years struggled to end the case.
Brown spent two-and-a-half months in jail after he was arrested for hitting a man outside a Washington hotel in October 2013.
Rihanna and Brown rekindled their relationship after a restraining order in the case was lifted, but have since broken up.

The judge's decision came as a surprise to many, who believed he was actually going to revoke Brown's probation and throw him back in jail after a damning report by the probation department.
TMZ had reported right before the hearing that his probation officer had pulled a u-turn and was supplying the court with a favourable report, claiming that it was 'all but certain' his the judge would reinstated. But Brown's full release seemed to catch everybody off guard.
His probation had been revoked in January after officials cited a number of red flags he had recently raised.
While he wasn't a suspect in either, Brown was present at two recent shooting incidents; One in San Jose, the other in Hollywood in which rap mogul Suge Knight was shot.


In the most recent incident, Brown was actually performing on stage at a nightclub in the early hours of January 11 when a number of shots were fired, causing widespread panic. Five people were wounded, but the singer escaped uninjured.
His appearance in San Jose was in itself a violation of his probation, since he is supposed to get permission before he leaves LA County.
The second shooting indecent occurred at 10AK nightclub in August at a pre-MTV Video Music Awards party hosted by Brown, where three people were shot and wounded, including Knight, who himself is currently being held on murder charges for an unrelated incident.


Although Brown was never implicated in either shooting, his probation report notes that 'There is also concern that when he performs or attends at some of his public events, people will get shot or seriously injured'.
The musician's probation had been revoked on a number of previous occasions.
In July 2013 he was involved in a hit-and-run in Los Angeles, but the charges were dropped before he found out if he would have to go to jail under the terms of his probation.

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