R&B crooner Chris Brown checked in with Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg Thursday afternoon to show that he’s on the road to becoming a model citizen, nine months after brutally slapping around his girlfriend at the time, the chanteuse Rihanna.
Brown was accompanied to Department 123 by celebrity lawyer Mark Geragos and a Praetorian guard of sheriff’s deputies — who requested reporters and court bystanders to “give us two feet.”
The 20-year-old pop star sat quietly through the brief proceedings attired in a suit jacket, vest and tie, along with three-inch cuffed blue jeans.
Judge Schnegg seemed to feel the celebrity power as she glowingly announced that the document before her was “an extremely favorable progress report,” and noted that Brown had served 66 hours of community service.