*Smack Smack Smack* Hear that noise? That's justice being served. Chris Brown plead guilty yesterday to backhanding the hell out off Rihanna and was given a laughably low sentence.
As part of the plea bargain, the singer will receive five years probation and spend 180 days doing community labor in Virginia. Brown will also move home to Virginia, his lawyer, Mark Geragos, announced in court, but will return to California once every three months for updates. During his probation, he must also obey a protective order, which means he cannot harm or harrass Rihanna, and a stay-away order, which requires him to stay at least 50 yards away from Rihanna at all times.
Brown said he was sorry though, so that's good for something, right?
"This is a kid who has never been in trouble before, who wants to move past this," his attorney said. "He has accepted responsibility and will continue to do so. He embraces this as an opportunity to get his life back on track and his career back on track." (Us Magazine)
Brown's going to be formally sentenced on Aug. 5, but this is it. Basically for beating up his girlfriend, Brown will sing at Virginia charity concerts for the next half-a-year. Our justice system is so out of whack when it comes to the famous. Seriously, I kicked a fire hydrant once and had to serve 12 years in the pen for "damaging government property." It's kind of better that Brown's not going to jail though, that places changes people. Look at me, I used to be a brown German Shepard named Daisy. Man, I've never been the same since.