Foxy Brown In Court Getting Yelled At - 4/23/08

An irate lawyer for rapper Foxy Brown requested to withdraw from her case in a Broward County, Fla., courtroom Wednesday, WFOR-TV reports. Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, appeared was in court for what was supposed to be a routine status hearing on a pair of misdemeanor assault charges stemming from an altercation she got into at Queen Beauty Supply store in Pembroke Pines in February of 2007. However, it didn't turn out routine when Brown's defense attorney, Fred Haddad, decided to withdraw from the case because of "irreconcilable differences." Haddad was angry that the rapper's New York lawyers had worked out a plea deal with the state attorney's office without his knowledge. Brown would receive six months probation if she accepted the plea deal. If convicted at trial, Brown could spend a year in Broward jail. "I absolutely feel that there is a conflict between myself and Ms. Marchand that is so strong that this will be one of three times in my career that I've requested to withdraw from a case because of a conflict with a client," Haddad said. "I don't have a conflict with anyone," Marchand told the judge. "I just want to have proper representation." The judge granted Haddad's request to withdraw from the case and gave Brown two weeks to find a new attorney and return to court on May 8.

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