Brown sentenced to eight days in jail

DECATUR - A state court judge has sentenced singer Bobby Brown to eight days in jail and ordered him not to drive for a year after pleading guilty Friday to a 1996 drunken driving charge in DeKalb County. <br> <br> Judge Wayne M. Purdom also ordered Brown to perform 240 hours of community service, pay two-thousand dollars in fines and eight-hundred dollars in court costs and get counseling. He will be on probation for two years. <br> <br> The judge had issued a warrant for Brown&#39;s arrest this week because the singer left Georgia in violation of his bond to perform at the nationally televised American Music Awards in Los Angeles on Monday. <br> <br> It&#39;s not the first jail time for Brown, who spent 26 days in a Florida jail in 2000 for violating parole on a 1996 drunken driving conviction by not submitting to a drug test. <br> <br> Brown also faces charges in Atlanta, where he was arrested November seventh on charges of possessing less than an ounce of marijuana, speeding and having no driver&#39;s license or proof of insurance. After posting bond in Atlanta, he was transferred to the neighboring DeKalb County Jail to face the older charges. <br> <br> Brown was a member of the R&B group New Edition, but left in the late &#39;80s for a solo career and recorded hits including ``My Prerogative&#39;&#39; and ``Every Little Step.&#39;&#39;