CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / LOS ANGELES

By Harriet Ryan

June 17, 2009 12 AM PT

The state Supreme Court is to consider today a request to postpone a preliminary hearing for Chris Brown, the R&B; singer accused of assaulting and threatening pop star Rihanna.

Brown has asked the high court to delay the proceeding in order to rule on the issue of whether the defense should have access to internal police records.

Brown’s attorney, Mark Geragos, contends that the files could be used to cross-examine police officers at the hearing about the leak of a picture showing Rihanna’s bloodied, bruised face.

-- Harriet Ryan

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Harriet Ryan

Harriet Ryan is an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Since joining the paper in 2008, she has written about high-profile people, including Phil Spector, Michael Jackson and Tom Girardi, and institutions, including USC, the State Bar of California, the Catholic Church, the Kabbalah Centre and Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin. Ryan won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with colleagues Matt Hamilton and Paul Pringle in 2019. She and Hamilton won the Collier Prize for State Government Accountability in 2023. She previously worked at Court TV and the Asbury Park Press. She is a graduate of Columbia University.

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