Brown Released...
[Associated
Press Report]
Brown released for Va. court
appearance
ATLANTA (AP) — Bobby Brown was released
from jail Monday because he must appear in a Virginia court.
DeKalb County Sheriff Thomas Brown said
he was presented with an order requiring the R&B singer to appear in family
court in an emergency hearing in Roanoke, Va., on Wednesday. After
conferring with Judge Wayne Purdom, the sheriff consented to the release.
They declined to say why Brown had been ordered to appear in Virginia.
Purdom sentenced Bobby Brown on Feb. 27 to serve 60 days in the DeKalb
County Jail after the singer violated his probation terms on a drunken
driving charge.
The singer was sentenced for five violations including his refusal to take
drug tests and pay his probation fees. The 35-year-old Brown also had been
charged for failing to provide proof that he underwent counseling and
completed his house arrest.
The fifth violation relates to a December misdemeanor battery charge in
which police said Brown hit his wife, Grammy-winning singer Whitney Houston,
leaving her with a bruised cheek and a cut inside her lip. Brown is
scheduled to appear May 5 in a Fulton County court on that charge.
Brown was scheduled to be released Thursday.
Correction: Bobby-Brown Story
ATLANTA (AP)--In a March 22 story about Bobby Brown's release from jail, The
Associated Press quoted DeKalb County Sheriff Thomas Brown as saying Bobby
Brown was let out early to appear in court in Virginia. The DeKalb County
Sheriff's Department later corrected that statement to say Brown was
released early to appear in court in Massachusetts.
AP-NY-03-23-04 1421EST
NEWSFILE:
22 MARCH 2004
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