Chris Brown's lawyer, Mark Geragos, has petitioned the California Supreme Court to postpone his client's upcoming preliminary hearing, scheduled for Monday.

While his PR peeps plot his every public move, his attorney is doing all he can to buy time in the assault and criminal threats case pending against Brown.

Geragos wants to delay the hearing until a judge decides if he can have access to LAPD records of its investigation into the battered Rihanna photo leak.

The state appeals court denied the same request last week.

Whether this is a stalling tactic as Geragos negotiates a plea, or if he really plans to use the photo leak as the crux of Brown's defense, remains to be seen.


Rihanna has been subpoeaned to testify at the June 22 hearing and her attorney, Donald Etra, says she's planning to comply with the prosecution's wishes.

Of course, neither music star wants to see a trial happen.

Chris Brown is accused of threatening the life and pounding the living daylights out of the 21-year-old Rihanna after a pre-Grammy party on February 8.

He would undeniably accept a plea bargain if one were on the table that allowed him to avoid jail time. The fact that this has not taken place already, however, suggests a lack of interest from the prosecution in allowing it.

Brown and Rihanna were last seen together - sort of - at Game Four of the NBA Finals. He was then seen with a Rihanna lookalike at Game Five. Obviously.