Singer Bobby Brown will serve a total of 75 days for violating his probation for a drunken driving conviction, a Broward County judge ruled Monday.

A prosecutor agreed to drop the most serious charge against Brown, that he failed a drug test by testing positive for cocaine. Brown agreed to plead guilty to the remaining charges, that he refused to take a second drug test and failed to return from a trip to Beverly Hills, Calif., on time.

"He said, 'I want to get it over with, I've had it, I'm spent on this thing,"' said Bruce Lyons, Brown's lawyer.

Brown, in custody since May 10, when he was arrested at New Jersey's Newark International Airport, will remain in Broward County Jail until July 8, after the ruling by Circuit Judge Leonard Feiner. Brown has already served 39 days of the sentence.

Monday's court appearance was meant to be a bond hearing, ordered last week by a circuit judge acting in an appellate capacity, Lyons said. Feiner had denied bond based on his belief that Brown posed a flight risk.

When a prosecutor agreed to drop one of the charges Monday, Brown decided to admit to the other two, Lyons said.

Brown spent five days in jail in 1998 and was placed on probation for one year after he was convicted of drunken driving and causing an accident on Aug. 17, 1996.

A warrant was issued for Brown's arrest last June, after his probation officer said he tested positive for cocaine in a urine test. He had also refused to take another test.

"This is not the kind of thing that should have the maximum sentence." Lyons said. "I think the judge sees Mr. Brown as someone who was thumbing his nose at the system ... but this was not a guy who was trying to run away."

Lyons said the judge's decision will allow Brown and his famous wife, singer Whitney Houston, to spend their July 18 wedding anniversary together.

"I just want to continue on with my sobriety and get back home to my family," Brown told reporters after the ruling. "It's been really tough."

Houston has been absent from her husband's court proceedings, but Lyons said she has visited him since his arrest.

"She wants to help him, not hurt him. If she showed up today it would have been a major zoo," Lyons said.

Brown's mother, sister, and infant niece were in court to support him Monday, Lyons said.