Neither Chris Brown nor his bodyguard will go to jail in connection with their assault of a man in October 2013. Although bodyguard Christopher Hollosy was convicted of misdemeanour assault and Brown pleaded guilty to misdemeanour assault and was sentenced to time served, a Washington, DC, superior court has ruled that they will not have to serve any more time behind bars.
On 16 December, Judge Patricia Wynn sentenced Christopher Hollosy to 90 days in jail for his misdemeanour assault of Parker Adams outside Washington’s W Hotel. But Wynn also suspended the sentence, meaning that Hollosy remains free unless he violates his one-year probation. Brown was also spared jail time: he pleaded guilty to the same charge in September, receiving a sentence of time served.
Brown and Hollosy both reportedly punched Adams when the fan tried to take a photo with the singer. “I’m not down with that gay shit,” Brown allegedly told Adams, according to a police report. Adams was later treated for a fractured nose.
“This all started over a photograph. Something went wrong,” prosecutor Kendra Briggs told the Washington Post. For Brown, the stakes were high: he is still on probation for his 2009 assault of Rihanna. Hollosy asked for special dispensation from the judge, given that he had no prior criminal record and that he had recently been injured in a car crash. “We acknowledge what happened in this case,” his lawyer said.
In addition to the criminal case, Adams also launched a civil suit against Brown and Hollosy, seeking $3m (£1.9m) in damages. They settled for a reported $100,000 (£64,000) in October.
