Judge Revokes Chris Brown's Probation

A judge revoked Chris Brown’s probation Monday but didn’t send him to jail for Rihanna’s bloody beatdown, citing the singer’s progress in anger management rehab.

“I’m pleased that he’s doing well in the program,” Judge James Brandlin said as a noticeably upbeat Brown appeared in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

The judge yanked the probation after reviewing a report on Brown’s Oct. 27 arrest for allegedly punching a man in the face outside a hotel near the White House.

The judge said declarations in the Washington D.C. police report led him to believe Brown violated his probation, but he wasn’t “inclined” to toss the short-fused singer in jail during the 90 days of residential treatment ordered at his last court hearing.

Brown wore glasses, a tweed jacket over a double-breasted vest, jeans and newly bleached hair as he smiled in the gallery and appeared more relaxed than at prior hearings.

A probation report from his November hearing stated he was kicked out of a voluntary rehab stay last month because he lost his cool and threw a rock through his mom’s car window.

The judge ordered him on Monday to continue taking the psychotropic drugs prescribed by his rehab doctors and refrain from using the medical marijuana that led to a dirty drug test in Virgina.

His latest probation report states he has passed a series of recent drug tests and already has completed 60 hours of community labor.

He was given an additional 1,000 hours of community labor in August following claims he misreported hours completed in his home state of Virginia.

The court instructed him to fulfill the new sentence at a rate of about 24 hours a week to stay on track.

A progress report from his rehab attached to the probation report released Monday states Brown has shown marked progress since re-enrolling after the violent episode involving the shattered car window.

“He has relinquished access to his cell phone and been ‘very committed’ to his 24 hours of weekly community service. This young man has made significant strides and appears to be a customer for change,” the redacted rehab report states.

The judge ordered Brown back to court Feb. 10 and gave him permission to travel to the capital for a hearing in his misdemeanor assault case on Jan. 8




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