Chris Brown's Reason for Rejecting Plea to Avoid Jail Revealed?
Chris Brown is rejecting a plea deal stemming from an alleged Washington D.C. fight last year that could have kept him out of jail and off of probation.
Last October Brown was accused of assaulting one man who wanted his picture while the 25-year-old singer was visiting the capital city to perform. The singer and his bodyguard Christopher Hollosy reportedly got into an altercation in front of the W Hotel in the city.
After a two day trial in April, Hollosy was found guilty of the assault. While Brown's trial was postponed a number of times, his recent appearance this week resulted in his refusal to agree to participating to the details of the assault, alleged by prosecution.
Despite the fact that accepting a plea deal could have kept him out of jail, Brown's lawyer Mark J. Geragos insisted his client is ready for another trial after saying new information has presented itself in the case, according to The Washington Post.
"If they want a trial, that's what they're going to get," Geragos said after the hearing, according to The Washington Post.
Brown is due to appear back in a Washington D.C. Superior Court on Sept. 8. However, his accuser Adams is still reportedly filing a $1.5 million civil lawsuit against Brown and his bodyguard, according to The Washington Post.
The singer previously rejected a plea deal offered to him involving the case last January. Although the prosecutors in the case said they have surveillance video proving Brown's involvement in the reported fight, the singer's attorney Geragos said the plea deal was rejected because his client was innocent.
"It was rejected because he's not guilty," Geragos previously told The New York Daily News. "I've seen everything I need to see in this case, so absent prosecutors turning over video footage of [Brown] doing it, there's little or no chance of any plea deal."
