Foxy Brown Headed to Jail

Monday, September 10, 2007

Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson of New York City sentenced a pregnant Foxy Brown to one year in jail for a 2004 assault on manicurists at a nail salon and for a number of other probation violations September 7. Brown has been on probation since the 2004 incident.

”I’m not going to give you any more chances. I hope you turn your life around and never again have to stand in a court of law,” said Jackson.

Brown revealed her pregnancy last month and is now facing the probability of giving birth to her first child in Riker’s.

Judge Jackson sentenced her harshly partly because she rejected a plea that would limit Brown’s jail term to nine months. Foxy Brown was indicted on second and third degree assault, attempted second-degree assault and criminal possession of a weapon for the July 30 incident where she allegedly beaned her neighbor with a Smartphone after a fight over loud music coming from a car stereo. Another reason Judge Jackson decided it was time for Brown to face the music for her behavior is when a clinical psychologist testified that Brown stopped showing up for her mandatory anger-management classes and was cited for four previous violations, which were read by a probation department lawyer.

Foxy Brown’s attitude needs work. In January, Brown was bounced from her anger-management class because she threatened a staffer. About a month later, she was stopped in Florida after spitting and throwing hair glue at a manager of a beauty supply store and then fighting with police. On top of that, she failed to clear the trip out of state with her probation officer and still faces battery and obstruction of justice. Brown failed to ‘clear’ a number of trips out of state.

Foxy Brown followed that up by being charged in the BlackBerry case and was arrested in New Jersey for giving police false information a week after the BlackBerry incident.

Maybe a year in jail will be good for Brown. Maybe she will realize that the same rules that apply to everyone else also apply to her. Just because she is a ‘Rapper’ does not mean she is any better than anyone else. As a matter of fact, her recent behavior shows more of the street urchin than a young talented woman.