As Brown begins speaking in a low, hoarse voice, reporters strain to catch his statement. But standing before the judge, the singer quickly becomes subdued and somber. Judging by his appearance, no one would know that James Brown has spent the last six weeks in prison.Īttired in a three-piece suit and a burgundy silk shirt, a gray silk scarf tied around his neck, he flashes a smile as he greets an acquaintance. “Don’t these people got nothing better to do?”Īdrienne Brown’s case has already been heard by the time her husband is finally brought into the court a little before 11 a.m. “Nothing but a zoo,” she says with a frown. Brown’s wife, Adrienne, who is here to plead no contest to her own misdemeanor traffic charges, the result of a 1987 incident, bustles in. Brown’s mother, his aunt and one of his sons, as well as Danny Ray, his longtime master of ceremonies, and Leon Austin, a childhood friend, find seats. “We’re gonna set up three rings out there,” Hamrick says. “Judge, gonna charge admission?” asks the bailiff. “Every few minutes it’s ‘Hey, we got a report in on James Brown–they just passed us in a police car,’ “says Hamrick, smiling.
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It is the same series of events that led to his incarceration in South Carolina. The singer is expected to plead guilty to misdemeanor weapons and traffic charges that stem from a now infamous interstate chase that began when he entered an insurance seminar carrying a shotgun last September. Hamrick of the Richmond County State Court.īrown, already serving another six-year sentence at South Carolina’s State Park Correctional Center, is being escorted to Hamrick’s court in downtown Augusta. “You know they’re giving out reports of his progress on the radio,” says Judge Gayle B. The Georgia Judge who is about to give James Brown a six-year prison sentence is in a jovial mood as he surveys his courtroom, taking in the television cameras, news photographers and reporters.
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