Britney Spears wins one battle in court

Britney Spears is one step closer to being free to choose her future if she can end a conservatorship over her finances. A Los Angeles court ruled Wednesday that Spears, 38, could pick her own lawyer. Mathew S. Rosengart, a former federal prosecutor, will serve as her attorney. He is expected to take a more aggressive approach to ending the 13-year arrangement for her father, Jamie Spears, to handle her finances. In 2008, after Spears experienced some mental health issues that aired publicly,…