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Foxy Brown Rejects Prosecution’s Plea OfferNEW YORK (AP) – Foxy Brown, accused of beating up two nail salon workers, has rejected a plea deal that would have kept her out of jail and would have involved no probation or conditions. Brown, 25, got the offer during her appearance in Manhattan Criminal Court, where she faces misdemeanor charges of assault, attempted assault and harassment in an Aug. 29 dispute at the Bloomie Nails salon in Chelsea. Her lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, said Brown wasn’t interested in any resolution that involved her admitting to a crime. He said the offer, a plea to a misdemeanor with no jail time, was “normally a good one, but she’s not guilty.” Judge Melissa Jackson scheduled Brown’s next court appearance for July 28. Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, was accused of punching and kicking the two employees in a dispute over payment for a pedicure and a manicure. “I got the pedicure, but they didn’t give me the manicure,” she said after her last court date. Prosecutors say Brown hit Myoung Yi repeatedly about the body and face with a cell phone in her closed fist and also kicked her. They say she hit a manager, Sun Ji Song, causing “bruising and swelling to the face, as well as substantial pain.” “I have confidence in the criminal justice system. I am confident that I will be exonerated,” the rapper said Friday as she left court. PHOTO CAPTION: Rap artist Foxy Brown leaves New Yorks Manhattan Criminal Court after turning down a plea offer for her assault case on last Friday. Brown is being charged with assaulting a manicurist in Brooklyn in August 2004. Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, has pleaded not guilty to using her cell phone and fist to attack the manicurists on Aug. 29. AP Photo/Adam Rountree.