Singer Chris Brown was ordered to perform 1,000 hours community
service Friday after his probation stemming from the 2009 assault on
his then girlfriend Rihanna was restored, officials said.
The 24-year-old R&B star's probation was revoked last month after he
was hit with misdemeanor charges following a minor traffic accident.
Those charges were dismissed on Thursday and on Friday Los Angeles
Superior Court judge James Brandlin restored his probation.
The reinstated probation order was conditional on Brown completing
1,000 hours of community labor, in addition to the 180 days he had
already been ordered to perform.
Judge Brandlin said Brown would be put to work in one of four programs
— highway clean-up, beach clean-up, graffiti removal or a program run
by the probation department.
The order came after prosecutors questioned whether Brownhad in fact
completed the initial 180-day period of community service he was
sentenced to. They cited "significant discrepancies" in his work
record.
However the singer's lawyer contested the allegation, saying
prosecutors "chose to ignore the actual evidence in an effort to find
someone, anyone, to say he was not working."
In 2009 Brown pleaded guilty to assaulting fellow singer Rihanna
earlier that year on the eve of the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles
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