By SAMUEL MAULL,AP
Posted: 2007-09-08 10:10:29
Filed Under: Celebrities in Court, Music News
NEW YORK (Sept. 8) - Foxy Brown was sentenced to one year in jail Friday for violating probation stemming from a fight with two manicurists in a New York City salon. Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson sentenced the rapper at a probation hearing for Brown, 28.




"I'm not going to give you any more chances," the judge told Brown. "I hope you turn your life around and never again have to stand in a court of law."
Brown was also indicted in Brooklyn Friday on charges that she smacked a neighbor with a cell phone.

Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, was on three years probation for assaulting two manicurists at a Manhattan nail salon in August 2004.

Just before her hearing began, Brown, in handcuffs and wearing an elegant gray pantsuit, asked the judge for yet another chance at freedom and promised to straighten out her life.

"I'm willing to do whatever I need to do to change," Brown told the judge. She said she had made a lot of mistakes before Jackson jailed her. "I realize that's not where I want to be. It's humbled me in ways I never imagined."


Jackson replied, "Ms. Marchand, it's too little, too late. I'm glad you're learning something; that's a positive."

Jackson rejected a deal in which Brown would have gone to jail for nine months in exchange for a misdemeanor guilty plea. The judge had said the defendant knew she would face a year in jail if she violated probation.

A Probation Department lawyer, Matilda Leo, read four violations the Probation Department filed against Brown. She said Brown had twice left New York without telling the court or Probation Department; that she had changed her address from Brooklyn to Mahwah, N.J., without permission; and that she had failed to tell the court she had received seven traffic summonses in New Jersey.


Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.

see ya later ghetto fool !

Lindsay gets a day, Nicole got an hour and Paris got a month but Foxy and Lil Kim get a year. Seems a little messed up. I think DUI is worse than hitting someone with a blackberry or lying under oath but that's just me..

blumer said:

It must be because she's black. You should go protest outside of the courthouse.

Empress said:

your comments are becoming very predictable.

unkemptpueblo said:

So are your responses. My comment is called sarcasm. Look it up in the dictionary.

Empress said:

Jumpin Jehoosefest!! "I'll take staples and agriculture for $1000.00, Alex."



did you predict that one? Thought not

and Im very familiar w/ sarcasm, thank u very much.
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blumer said:

Damn right. Lindsay really really fucked up..(cocaine / DUI / crash people?) and got off easy. Fuck that

blumer said:

True, but I'm not crying for that idiot Foxy Brown. She had enough chances to get her sh!t together.

It's too bad they don't have judges like Ms. Jackson in LA.

uPtoWnNY said:

Exactly i totally agree the DUI thing should be treated HARSH, but kim and Foxy do deserve their terms at least Foxy does because she has had about 5 incidents. As for DUI heres my deal, ONE violation and your license is suspended for a year and Two its revoked, obviously if anyone is hit or even bruised, jail time needs to be served, none of this 3-4 strikes given to everyone.

lastdecember said:

Well, Nicole Ritchie should have her license revoked for life. Driving the wrong way on a freeway???? It's a miracle she didn't kill someone. Some of these judges are a joke.

..and I hope Remy gets hard time for that fool stunt she pulled.
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blumer said:

those are all different cases.. cant compare them.. Foxy is trying to be another Naomi Campbell here.. i have no sympathy for her .. i agree Lil'Kim shouldnt have gotten a year though..