Eight Days Jail...
[From Associated Press]
Bobby Brown Gets 8 Days in Jail for DUI
.c The Associated Press
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) - Singer Bobby Brown was sentenced to eight days in jail and ordered not
to drive for a year after pleading guilty Friday to a 1996 drunken driving charge in
DeKalb County.
State Court Judge Wayne M. Purdom also ordered Brown to perform 240 hours of community
service, pay $2,000 in fines and $800 in court costs and get counseling. He will be on
probation for two years.
Brown, 33, is married to singer Whitney Houston, who was not in the courtroom Friday.
The judge had issued a warrant for Brown's arrest this week because the singer left
Georgia in violation of his bond to perform at the American Music Awards Monday in Los
Angeles.
``Mr. Brown, you can't know from your position how tempting it is in this case to just
throw the book at you,'' Purdom said Friday.
Brown was taken into custody immediately. As he was escorted from the courtroom, he said,
``It's over.''
It's not the first time behind bars for Brown, who spent 26 days in a Florida jail in 2000
for violating parole on a 1996 drunken driving conviction by not submitting to a drug
test.
Brown also faces charges in Atlanta, where he was arrested Nov. 7 on charges of possessing
less than an ounce of marijuana, speeding and having no driver's license or proof of
insurance. After posting bond in Atlanta, he was transferred to the neighboring DeKalb
County Jail to face the older charges.
Brown was a member of the R&B group New Edition, but left in the late '80s for a solo
career and recorded hits including ``My Prerogative'' and ``Every Little Step.''
NEWSFILE: 17 JANUARY 2003
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