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Chris Brown faced two new charges in a London assault case Friday morning ... pleading not guilty to two additional counts stemming from a violent altercation two years ago in which a man's head was smashed with a bottle in a nightclub.

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00:00So, I'm going to say something that I know he doesn't agree with, because we've been arguing all morning.

00:05But I think the prosecutors in the Chris Brown case in the UK are in Diddy territory.

00:12And I say it because you know...

00:14Not because Chris Brown is being accused of anything like Diddy was.

00:17Exactly. Thank you for saying this.

00:19But what I'm saying is, they have charged him already with assault.

00:23And I get it, because he allegedly...

00:26I think it was assault with grievous harm.

00:29Grievous harm.

00:29And I get it, that's what he's accused of, hitting somebody over the head with a big tequila bottle.

00:34I get it. In a bar.

00:36Now they've added two more charges, including the charge of using an offensive weapon in a public place.

00:46The offensive weapon is the tequila bottle.

00:50How is a tequila bottle an offensive weapon in a bar?

00:56I get it was used in such...

00:58Hand me a bottle, I'll show you.

00:59I'll gladly show you how it is an offensive weapon.

01:03Do you know what a bottle of Don Julio 1492 looks like?

01:06I understand it, yes.

01:08It's a big bottle.

01:09Is it 1492?

01:10Guys, my point...

01:111942.

01:12My point is this.

01:131492 is a long way back.

01:15A car is a deadly weapon.

01:16You can charge somebody if they hit you with a car intentionally, with assault with a deadly weapon.

01:21You can charge them with a baseball bat.

01:23But if you go to Dodger Stadium, the baseball bat is not an offensive weapon.

01:30Can we...

01:31It is not an offensive weapon.

01:32Let's get to...

01:33So Chris Brown was in court today in the UK because of these two new charges that he's

01:38now facing, and he had to enter a plea.

01:41He entered not guilty, just as he did a few weeks ago to the first charge.

01:47Look, I don't know why the prosecutors added these two charges.

01:50They are lesser charges, but they have added them, and he had to officially show up.

01:56He had to make...

01:57He's got to show up for every court date.

01:59Otherwise, he's got $6.7 million...

02:01Which is another...

02:02...that they're holding for him.

02:04Here's the point I'm trying to make.

02:05I think one of the reasons did he won his case, and he did win.

02:10Forget the man act.

02:11That's...

02:11Right.

02:12He won his case.

02:13One of the reasons is he was overcharged.

02:16That racketeering did not make any sense, and it felt like they were going after this guy

02:23because of what they didn't like in his bedroom.

02:26And in this case, look at what they're doing to Chris Brown.

02:30They held him without bail for an assault case without bail.

02:34That's what you do with murder.

02:36So they held him without bail.

02:38Then they finally give him bail for $6.8 million for an assault case.

02:44And now they add this offensive weapon.

02:46What I'm saying is a judge or maybe a jury may look at this and say,

02:52they're just going after this guy.

02:54Harvey, I really...

02:55I agree with you entirely on this thing.

02:57I don't even understand this, you know, use of an offensive weapon charge

03:01when that already seems baked into the assault charge.

03:04Right.

03:04We have an assault charge.

03:06You obviously assault him with the tequila bottle.

03:08Now with this extra charge that's with an offensive weapon,

03:11anything can be an offensive weapon.

03:12And so this charge seems to be available in every assault.

03:15I'm sorry, counselors, exactly how much law have the two of you combined

03:20to practice in the U.K.?

03:23We know common law.

03:24We know that.

03:25No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

03:26It's not about it.

03:26I don't want to...

03:27Don't tell me about this common law nonsense.

03:29Hold on, you're about to be it, Charles.

03:29Don't tell me about the common law nonsense.

03:31Charles, you're about to be embarrassed.

03:32You're about to be embarrassed.

03:33I ask a question.

03:34Well, you don't understand.

03:35How am I going to be embarrassed?

03:36The answer is none.

03:37You're about to be embarrassed because I once spent three days practicing law in the U.K.

03:43Three whole days.

03:44Okay.

03:45And guess what?

03:45Thank you for the answer.

03:46That's all I want to know.

03:47And here's...

03:47No, stop.

03:48No.

03:48Here's what we know, that we learned common law.

03:52Common law comes from England.

03:55So our system is based on the common law system of England.

04:00Right.

04:01So yes, we know a lot.

04:02And I learned more in that three days than anybody else.

04:05No, wait.

04:06Jason, were you actually in a court or were you just like took a class?

04:10No, I was doing a document review in somebody's office, but it was...

04:13And by the way, if we're going to get down to it, when I was teaching law school, I once

04:18wore a white wig when I was teaching the rule against perpetuity.

04:21Yeah, but you weren't teaching at the time, so it's different.

04:23I was teaching the rule against perpetuity, and I was teaching the rule against perpetuity.

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