Chris Brown Goes to Court, With Rihanna in the Front Row

Pool photo by David McNew Chris Brown appeared at a hearing at the Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

As Rihanna sat in the front row and blew him a kiss, Chris Brown went before a judge on Wednesday to answer allegations from prosecutors that he had failed to complete a sentence of community service after pleading guilty to assaulting her in 2009, The Associated Press reported.

The judge in Los Angeles County Court, James Brandlin, asked for more information about Mr. Brown’s community service and scheduled another hering in two months. He also ordered Mr. Brown to remain on probation, which means he will be able to attend the Grammys on Sunday in Los Angeles, where both he and Rihanna, his on-again-off-again girlfriend, are nominated for awards.

Mr. Brown badly beat and choked Rihanna, one of the most successful pop singers in the world, four years ago in a car after attending a party on the eve of the Grammys. He was later sentenced to five years of probation and six months of community service, which a judge agreed to let him do in his home state, Virginia.

Rihanna announced to the world in the current issue of Rolling Stone that she had reconciled with Mr. Brown and had forgiven him for beating her. On Wednesday, she accompanied him to court along with his mother and blew him a kiss as he went before the judge. They left together after the judge set the next hearing for April 5.

Prosecutors maintain that they found no evidence that Mr. Brown had completed the wo! rk he had been sentenced to, and they asked the judge to order him put in another 180 days of labor in Los Angeles County.

A lawyer for Mr. Brown, Mark Geragos, sharply disputed the allegations, accusing prosecutors of making “scurrilous, libelous and defamatory statements” against his client, The Los Angeles Times reported. He said he would seek sanctions against the district attorney’s office.

A motion filed on Tuesday by Deputy District Attorney Mary A. Murray said an investigation into Mr. Brown’s community service found “significant discrepancies indicating at best sloppy documentation and at worst fraudulent reporting.” Specifically, the motion cast doubt on whether police officers in Richmond, Va., had properly monitored Mr. Brown when he was supposed to be cleaning floors at a day care center where his mother was once a supervisor.

Tuesdayâ€s motion also outlined several violent incidents Mr. Brown has been involved in since his assault conviction in 2009, none of which have led to charges being filed against him. The most recent one it cited was a Jan. 27 fistfight between Mr. Brown and a fellow R&B singer, Frank Ocean, over a parking spot in Los Angeles. According to court papers filed with the motion on Tuesday, Mr. Ocean told investigators that Mr. Brown had threatened to shoot him during the melee, which involved other men as well. Mr. Ocean, who is also nominated for several Grammy awards this Sunday, has said he will not press charges.