Media Abuzz As Chris Brown Heads to Superior Court in Rhianna Beating Case
On June 22nd, R&B superstar Chris Brown arrived in Los Angeles Superior Court for a preliminary hearing regarding Brown’s widely-publicized altercation with pop-singer Rhianna prior to the Grammy Awards in February. Brown allegedly beat up the 21-year-old Rhianna while heading to a Grammy party in a rented Lamborghini. Rhianna’s brutalized image proved fodder for paparazzi and celebrity gossip purveyors like TMZ.com, US Weekly, and People Magazine.
Although the Superior Court Judge did not permit cameras in the courtroom to observe the proceedings, reporters could listen in via a closed-circuit broadcast. In preliminary hearings of this kind, prosecutors need only establish “probably cause” to get the go ahead to proceed to trial. Assuming the Brown-Rhianna matter does in fact move on to trial, the prosecution will then face a much stiffer burden of proof and will have to demonstrate Brown’s guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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