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A Manhattan judge sentenced Foxy Brown to three years probation yesterday (October 24), bringing an end to the rapper's two year court battle over misdemeanor assault charges stemming from a 2004 brawl in a Manhattan nail salon.
Brown (whose real name is Inga Marchand), failed to appear for a court hearing yesterday, where Judge Melissa C. Jackson was scheduled to review several motions in the case, including one from Brown requesting to withdraw a guilty plea she entered this August.
Judge Jackson denied that motion, deciding the plea agreement was legitimate; she also threatened to invoke a warrant for Brown's arrest if she failed to appear in court today for sentencing.
When Foxy appeared in court today with her attorney and bodyguard, she appealed to the judge for a final time.
"I'm innocent," Brown was quoted saying in Associated Press reports, before claiming that she felt pressured to rush into the plea agreement, adding that a previous lawyer had told her she'd face jail time unless she accepted the deal for probation.
In the end Jackson decided the agreement from August was legitimate, rejecting Brown's request for a two-week extension and new arguments, before imposing the originally agreed upon sentence of three years probation and anger management classes.
"The purpose of a re-argument is not to let the parties go over issues that have already decided," Jackson was quoted Associated Press reports. Brown was also cautioned that if she fails to meet the conditions of her probation she will face a possible one year sentence in jail.
In August the Brooklyn bombshell plead guilty to misdemeanor assault charges for kicking one Bloomie Nails worker and hitting a second employee in the face on August 29, 2004 when an argument over payment for a manicure Brown said she never received turned ugly.
Source: sohh.com
Brown (whose real name is Inga Marchand), failed to appear for a court hearing yesterday, where Judge Melissa C. Jackson was scheduled to review several motions in the case, including one from Brown requesting to withdraw a guilty plea she entered this August.
Judge Jackson denied that motion, deciding the plea agreement was legitimate; she also threatened to invoke a warrant for Brown's arrest if she failed to appear in court today for sentencing.
When Foxy appeared in court today with her attorney and bodyguard, she appealed to the judge for a final time.
"I'm innocent," Brown was quoted saying in Associated Press reports, before claiming that she felt pressured to rush into the plea agreement, adding that a previous lawyer had told her she'd face jail time unless she accepted the deal for probation.
In the end Jackson decided the agreement from August was legitimate, rejecting Brown's request for a two-week extension and new arguments, before imposing the originally agreed upon sentence of three years probation and anger management classes.
"The purpose of a re-argument is not to let the parties go over issues that have already decided," Jackson was quoted Associated Press reports. Brown was also cautioned that if she fails to meet the conditions of her probation she will face a possible one year sentence in jail.
In August the Brooklyn bombshell plead guilty to misdemeanor assault charges for kicking one Bloomie Nails worker and hitting a second employee in the face on August 29, 2004 when an argument over payment for a manicure Brown said she never received turned ugly.
Source: sohh.com