A judge has ended Chris Brown’s felony probation in an assault case over his 2009 attack on pop singer Rihanna.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James R Brandlin said Friday that the R&B singer had completed the terms of his sentence, which included community labor, domestic violence counseling and rehab.
The relief was palpable on the face of the singer, who turned up in court with purple hair wearing a suit jacket over a t-shirt.
Brown has been subject to scrutiny by court and probation officials after pleading guilty to attacking Rihanna, his girlfriend at the time, hours before the 2009 Grammy Awards. The attack destroyed Brown’s squeaky clean image and he has in recent years struggled to end the case.
Brown spent two-and-a-half months in jail after he was arrested for hitting a man outside a Washington hotel in October 2013.
Rihanna and Brown rekindled their relationship after a restraining order in the case was lifted, but have since broken up.
The judge’s decision came as a surprise to many, who believed he was actually going to revoke Brown’s probation and throw him back in jail after a damning report by the probation department.
TMZ had reported right before the hearing that his probation officer had pulled a u-turn and was supplying the court with a favourable report, claiming that it was ‘all but certain’ his the judge would reinstated. But Brown’s full release seemed to catch everybody off guard.
His probation had been revoked in January after officials cited a number of red flags he had recently raised.
While he wasn’t a suspect in either, Brown was present at two recent shooting incidents; One in San Jose, the other in Hollywood in which rap mogul Suge Knight was shot.
''Free Man''Chris Brown's face of relief as judge ENDS his probation six years after his assault on then-girlfriend Rihanna
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