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The "Turn Up the Music" singer was ordered to return for a
probation violation hearing on March 20, Jane Robison, a
spokeswoman for the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office, said
in an email.
Brown, 25, appeared in court with his girlfriend, model
Karrueche Tran, after performing at a club last weekend in San
Jose in Northern California where police said five people were
shot and wounded. Under the terms of his probation, Brown was
not allowed to leave Los Angeles County.
Brown's attorney Mark Geragos said in court that his office had
mistakenly informed the singer he could go to Northern
California without the judge's permission.
But Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Brandlin said Brown
was responsible for following the terms of his probation and
Brandlin ordered that it be revoked, but allowed the R&B singer
to remain free at least until the upcoming hearing.
The singer's probation stems from his pleading guilty in 2009 to
assaulting singer Rihanna, his girlfriend at the time, on the
eve of the Grammy Awards.
In 2013, Judge Brandlin revoked Brown's probation after he was
accused of punching a man trying to get a picture of the singer
in Washington, D.C., but he was not taken into custody in Los
Angeles at that time because of good reports on his progress.
In March 2014, Brown was kicked out of a court-ordered
rehabilitation in California and as a result was placed in Los
Angeles County jail until June. Brown last September pleaded
guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge in connection with the
scuffle in Washington and received a sentence of the two days he
had already served in jail in that case.
Judge Brandlin said that in general Brown has been making
progress and working at his community service. The singer has
200 hours of community service to complete, Robison said.
Brown, who first made his mark in the music world as a teenager,
has been able to bounce back professionally and regain his
popularity after he was widely condemned for his assault on the
world-famous Rihanna.
(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis and Lucy Nicholson; Editing by
Eric Walsh)
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