Chris Brown’s attorney, Mark Geragos, made an appeal to have some top secret LAPD documents released in relation to the Rihanna beating case. The documents were regarding the leak of the beating photo to TMZ.

The appeal has just been rejected today:

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by Chris Brown’s attorney Mark Geragos who is seeking access to confidential LAPD files involving the illegal leak of a photograph of a badly beaten Rihanna.

Geragos appealed to California’s highest court after a lower court judge, Judge Patricia Schnegg, denied his motion to access to LAPD personnel records. Gergaos was seeking the records hoping to find the source of the leak of the photo of Rihanna taken after she was assaulted, allegedly by Brown last February.

Chris Brown will be back in court for a preliminary hearing on Monday afternoon. At the conclusion of the preliminary hearing, the judge will decide if there is enough evidence to proceed to a jury trial. Rihanna was subpoened to testify at the hearing, and her attorney has said that she will comply with the subpoena and be a cooperative witness for the prosecution.

Brown,20, is charged with threatening and beating his then-girlfriend Rihanna in Los Angeles this past February.

Source, Bauer-Griffin