Bobby Brown Serves 8 Hours Of A 55-Day DUI Sentence At Twin Towers Jail

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com/AP) — Singer Bobby Brown was released from jail Wednesday after serving only eight hours of a 55-day sentence for a driving under the influence conviction.

Brown's attorney and a spokesman for the city attorney's office said the R&B singer turned himself in at a Los Angeles courthouse Wednesday morning. He was booked at the Men's Central Jail downtown and released just before 7 p.m., according to the Los Angeles Times.

As a condition of his release, Brown will wear an electronic ankle bracelet.

Brown pleaded no contest to DUI and driving on a suspended license in February. He will also be required to serve four years on informal probation and complete an 18-month alcohol treatment program after he is released.

The conviction is Brown's second for DUI in less than a year. He avoided jail after pleading no contest to a March 2012 drunk driving case.

The 44-year-old New Edition singer is the ex-husband of deceased singer Whitney Houston.

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