Lawyer accuses Chris Brown of “disrespect” in rape case

PARIS (AP) — The lawyer for a woman who filed a rape complaint in Paris against Chris Brown says the American rap artist “has thumbed his nose at and shown disrespect for the French legal system” after he did not attend a formal confrontation with the alleged victim.
Brown was arrested in Paris in January then released from custody without charges pending further investigation of the woman’s allegations that he raped her at the French capital’s Mandarin Oriental Hot