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CHRIS BROWN BACK IN COURT OVER FAILED COMMUNITY SERVICE

Singer Chris Brown was back in court Friday as lawyers received evidence from Virginia and New York in a dispute over the community service hours he served for beating Rihanna.

A Los Angeles judge told him to return June 10 for a follow-up hearing on whether he misreported the days he says he spent cleaning stables, shredding documents, scrubbing floors and performing other tasks in his home state of Virginia.

The “Kiss Kiss” singer wore a white tuxedo shirt untucked over tan slacks and declined to speak with reporters. His mom accompanied him to the hearing, but Rihanna was noticeably absent.

The Barbadian beauty — his on-again girlfriend — joined him at his last hearing in February in a surreal show of support.

“She thinks this is outrageous, too,” Brown’s lawyer, Mark Geragos, told the Daily News in February. “She has seen the person he’s become, and she’s continually supportive.”

Brown was ordered to serve 180 days of community labor after pleading guilty to assaulting Rihanna in a rented Lamborghini in 2009.

His sentencing judge allowed him to carry out the requirement in Virginia.

In a surprise motion filed Feb. 5, Los Angeles prosecutors asked the court to void the Virginia hours over alleged inconsistencies. Deputy District Attorney Mary Murray asked that Brown be forced to repeat them in Los Angeles.

She said accounting submitted by Virginia officials showed “significant discrepancies indicating at best sloppy documentation and at worst fraudulent reporting.”

One inconsistency, Murray wrote, involved an August 2012 letter from Virginia police stating that Brown not only fulfilled his full 180-day sentence, but also went above and beyond with an extra 22 days of labor — for a total of 202 days.

Many of the hours were served at a children’s center outside the Richmond jurisdiction approved by the court, she wrote.

Police relied upon the singer’s mom, who once worked at the center, to supervise and tally those hours, Murray claimed.

In his response filing, Geragos blasted the “vicious” attack on Virginia law enforcement and said it warranted possible sanctions against the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office.

He provided 11 work logs from the Richmond Police Department that were signed by Brown and a department letter showing Brown paid $31,534.70 to cover the cost of 901 hours of police supervision.

Geragos also said prosecutors were “dead wrong” to assume Brown missed reported shifts because he was traveling to Cancun on one occasion and back from Dubai on another.

“Apparently the investigators in their single-minded determination to prove Chris did not do the work failed to even Google a thing called carpool lanes,” Geragos wrote in his filing.

The new evidence received by the court under subpoena Friday included two “fairly large envelopes” from Virginia and one smaller envelope from New York, Judge James Brandlin said.

The materials were placed under seal pending the June hearing.

When the DA has it in for your a$$

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