ENTERTAINMENT : James Brown Denied a New Trial

AIKEN, S.C. — A judge denied soul singer James Brown a new trial today and refused to reduce his six-year prison sentence on charges resulting from a police chase in late September.

“Regardless of how much good you’ve done or how big you are, no one is above the law,” Circuit Judge Herbert Long told Brown, who sat motionless dressed in the same rumpled gray suit he wore during the week of court proceedings. “Everyone has to be treated equally.”