Legal+Issues

James Brown came in contact with the law many times. At the age of 16, he was arrested for theft and served 3 years in prison. In 1988, Brown was arrested for following an alleged high-speed car chase on Interstate 20 along the Georgia-South Carolina state border. Charged with numerous offences, including illegal possession of drugs and firearms, aggravated assault and failure to stop for the police, he was sentenced to six and a half years on prison. Although he was sentenced to six years in prison, he was eventually released in 1991 after serving only three years of his sentence. In January 1998, there were new fears for his own health, he was treated in hospital for addiction to painkillers.Shortly afterwards he was arrested and charged for possession of marijuana and unlawful use of a firearm. Brown's claim that the high-speed chase did now occur as claimed by the police, and that local police shot at his car several times during an incident of police harassment and assaulted him after his arrest. In another incident, the police were summoned to Brown's home on July 3, 2000 after he was accused of attacking an electric company repairman with a steak knife when the repairman visited brown's house to investigate a complaint about having no lights at the residence. In 2003, Brown was excused for past crimes that he was convicted of committing in South Carolina. In January 2005, a woman named Jacque Hollander filed a lawsuit against James Brown, which stemmed from an alleged 1988 forcible rape. When the case was initially heard before a judge in 2002, Hollander's claims against Brown were dismissed by the court as the limitations period for filing the suit had expired. Hollander claimed that stress from the alleged assault later caused her to contract Grave's Disease, a thyroid condition. Hollander claimed that the incident took place in South Carolina while she was employed by Brown as publicist.

Hollander alleged that, during her ride in a van with Brown, Brown pulled over to the side of the road and sexually assaulted her while he threatened her with a shotgun. In her case against Brown, hollander brought as evidence a DNA sample and a polygraph result, but the evidence was not enough. Hollander later attempted to bring her case before the Supreme Court but nothing became of her complaint.

During the 1990s and 2000s, Brown was repeatedly arrested for domestic violence. Adrienne Rodriguez, his third wife, had him arrested four times between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s on charges of assault.In 1995, Brown's wife Adrienne died in a tragic medical accident during a Liposuction surgery. In January 2004, Brown was arrested in South Carolina on a domestic violence charge after Tomi Rae Hynie accused him of pushing her to the floor during an argument at their home, where she suffered scratches and bruises to her right arm and hip. Later that year in June 2004, Brown pleaded no contest to the domestic violence incident, but served no jail time. Instead, Brown was required to forfeit a US $1,087 bond as punishment.

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