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R&B and Pop singer Chris Brown’s assault charge will stand as the judge rejects his lawyer’s request to drop the charge the afternoon of April 7th due to misconduct on the behalf of the prosecutors. Mark Geragos claimed that prosecutors abused the Grand Jury process to prepare for trial but Judge Patricia Wynn dismissed the claim. He says prosecutors used the grand jury to “freeze” the testimony of the alleged victim in the case. The singer and his bodyguard, Christopher Hollosy, are charged with hitting a man on the sidewalk in Washington, D.C, just blocks away from the White House.

The two allegedly punched 20-year-old Isaac Parker after he tried to get in a picture the singer was taking with two of the victim’s female friends. Parker suffered a fractured nose and injuries to his face and head. Although the charge is a misdemeanor and Chris Brown will unlikely face jail time, the singer remains behind bars because of his probation for an attack on ex-girlfriend Rihanna five years ago.

Judge Wynn concluded that prosecutors had the right to use the Grand Jury process to assess the strength of the case. “I am persuaded that there is no abuse”, Judge Wynn stated Monday after rejected the dismissal.

Chris Brown was originally ordered to stay in a court-mandated rehabilitation program but was turned over to the  U.S. Marshals at the LA County Jail after failing to stay in the program. The judge allowed him to stay out of jail by entering a 90-day anger management and drug rehab program. Although he completed that program last month, the judge ordered him to remain a resident at the Malibu, California, treatment facility until another hearing April 23. Leaving before April 23 led to his subsequent arrest.

Chris Brown must now be transported through the prison transportation system and he is still on his way from Los Angeles to the nation’s capital. This is a cross-country journey that the U.S. Marshal’s office said could take one or two weeks.

After watching the first episode of the 4th season of Game of thrones, I was literally barely containing my thinking of where this season’s stories will end up. The first episode wasn’t as strong as the other first episodes of the new season, but it did it’s job of continuing to excite and keep interest in the show. It showed all of the main characters from before but it has introduced a new character which will be interesting. For those of you who haven’t seen the episode, the next few paragraphs are going to spoil what happens in the episode.

The first characters I will talk about is the Lannisters because the episode consisted mostly of them this episode. Jaime is back in the kings guard in King’s Landing and it feels as if everyone with the exception of Tyrion hates Jaime. Tywin as always reaffirms how much everyone who watches the show hates him and even more so with Geoffrey. Cersei is even more of an evil woman then i could possibly think and her acting is phenomenal. You start to sympathize with both Jaime and Tyrion because they are related to completely evil characters on the show.

John snow is being reprimanded for all that he is done in season 3 but due to the fact that there is an impending threat on their way. Aria continues to show fans why she is one of the favorite characters on the show when she kills someone who wronged her in her past. Sansa Stark is trying to get a grip on what’s happening with the death of her family. Mind you she has no idea that her sister aria and her brothers bran and rickon are still alive. The character I really want to talk about is known as the Red Viper of Dorn. Now he is very important to this season for two reasons. The first reason is that he hates the Lannisters which should prove interesting because he has been invited to Geoffrey’s wedding.  The second reason is that he has a vendetta for the guard of the Lanisters known as the mountain. With all of these character developments this season should prove to be one of the best ones.