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FOXY BROWN WANTS EARLY RELEASE FOR EAR PROBLEM: Rapper asks judge to end sentence early.
*In the midst of her year-long prison sentence for a parole violation, rapper Foxy Brown has asked a New York judge for an early release so she can treat an ear problem she believes will render her completely deaf.
"I ask you to please take into consideration that my health is in jeopardy," Brown wrote in a four-page handwritten letter to Judge Melissa Jackson, according to Reuters. "Yes, I've made some bad choices and stupid mistakes. But please understand that sitting in a prison with murderers and criminals is not rehabilitating or what I need to deal with my inner issues."
"Up until now, you've only heard about Foxy Brown the artist. I'd like to show you Inga Marchand the beautiful person that my mom raised me to be," she wrote. "Jail has shaken me to my core, and my time away has impacted me greatly."
The letter was part of an appeal filed late on Tuesday at New York State Supreme Court.
Brown's lawyer, Laura Dilimetin, said in court papers that the rapper's ear condition makes continued incarceration unfair. In January 2006, she had surgery to have an electronic device implanted in her right ear to reverse "profound hearing loss," Dilimetin said. The only doctor who has successfully treated Brown's condition -- and complications with the implant -- is based in California, she explained.
"If her hearing is damaged any further, it will affect the way she hears and it will affect the way she sings. It will have dire consequences on her ability to maintain her profession and livelihood," Dilimetin said.
In September, the 29-year-old artist was sentenced to a year behind bars for violating terms of her probation that were set in Oct. 2006 stemming from an assault at a nail salon.
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