Chris Brown recently revealed that prosecutors in his Washington D.C. assault case screwed him over by unlawfully getting a sneak peek of witnesses.
The 'Run It' singer's lawyer, Mark Geragos, said that prosecutors had no right to take Brown's case before the grand jury, TMZ reported.
Geragos said that in 24-year-old rapper's legal docs the U.S. Attorney had already decided to reduce the charge from a felony to a misdemeanor assault.
The singer's lawyer has alleged that the only reason a grand jury was convened was to get a preview of how the witnesses in their case would fare under oath.
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