Chris Brown's lawyers have filed legal papers asking the LAPD how those pictures of a battered and bruised Rihanna ended up on the internet.
As previously reported, Brown's lawyers have let it be known that they plan to bring up every procedural error made by the authorities in their investigation of allegations that the R&B star beat then girlfriend Rihanna unconscious as the case goes to court. You might say that that surely means he's guilty, guilty, guilty, because if he didn't beat his girlfriend to a pulp then he'd be saying so, rather than getting all tied up with tedious technicalities. But innocent before proven and all that, and Brown officially denies all charges.
Though insiders say they expect Brown to plead guilty, to at least some of the charges, before any actual trial, and that his legal people are laying into the LAPD's inadequacies in a bid to get a lesser and if possible non-custodial sentence as part of a plea bargain. Perhaps he could do community service, go round LA schools telling teenage boys that if they want to beat up their girlfriends, best first be rich enough to afford the kind of lawyers who can get you off with community service.
The motion filed this week asks the LAPD to provide all the information it can lay its hands on regarding how the photo and other confidential information about the case were leaked to gossip websites.