Steve Granitz/Getty ImagesChris Brown isn't ready to take a stand yet.
Clad in a grey suit and tie and looking humble before a Los Angeles Superior Court judge, the R&B star stood alongside lawyer Mark Geragos as the attorney requested a postponement of Brown's arraignment on felony charges for allegedly assaulting Rihanna on Feb. 8.
After watching Brown sign a waiver of presence, allowing his lawyer to act on his behalf instead, the judge agreed to postpone the proceedings until April 6.
"Mr. Brown, you are ordered not to annoy harass, molest, threaten or use force or violence against anyone," the judge instructed Brown.
Rihanna's legal camp, who referred to her as Ms. Fenty, said that no such order was needed on her behalf.
The 19-year-old chart topper is facing a maximum sentence of 56 months in prison if convicted on both counts, leveled at him earlier today, of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury and making criminal threats.
L.A. police never formally identified Rihanna as the victim at the center of their domestic-violence investigation, but the sordid details of the case have been hard-pressed to remain under wraps from day one.
Law-enforcement sources had informed E! News that the L.A. District Attorney's Office, which just received the fruits of the LAPD's investigation yesterday, had been looking to make a felony case against Brown.
Family members and friends of Brown refused to talk to reporters as they entered the L.A. Criminal Justice Center through a backdoor at about 3:40 p.m.
We don't know where Rihanna was throughout these proceedings, but sources told E! News that the 21-year-old songstress was on Brown's private flight from Miami to Burbank Airport earlier this week after the two reconnected at Sean "Diddy" Comb's Star Island mansion in Miami Beach.