On Thursday, December 12, Morgan Wallen entered a guilty plea to two misdemeanors in Nashville, avoiding jail time through a judicial diversion program.
In a plea deal his attorneys struck, Wallen entered a guilty plea to two counts of misdemeanor reckless endangerment, which spared him from additional jail time.
For the first time since a chair-throwing incident at Eric Church’s Chief’s pub in Nashville on April 7, 2024, the musician appeared before a judge. At earlier court appearances, his lawyer had represented him.
The eight-month odyssey should come to an end with the afternoon hearing.
- Morgan Wallen was arrested on April 7 after allegedly throwing a chair off the roof of Chief’s in downtown Nashville.
- The chair landed near two police officers.
- After interviewing witnesses, MNPD charged Wallen with three felony counts of reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct.
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The 31-year-old was first charged with three felony counts of reckless endangerment and one misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct before entering a plea on lesser charges.
Two of the felony counts were reduced to misdemeanors in the days before the hearing.
Is Morgan Wallen Going to Jail?
Wallen will not be imprisoned for hurling a chair from the bar’s roof in downtown Nashville. He was spared jail time in favor of an alcohol education program and instead received a two-year suspended sentence over two different counts.
For each count, Wallen will be placed on supervised probation for 11 months and 29 days. Each of them will serve a two-year effective sentence, with all but seven days of that time suspended.
The judge informed Wallen that if he fulfills the conditions of his probation and receives no additional charges, he will be eligible to have the charges removed from his record once his probation is up. Wallen will also spend seven days at an alcohol education facility.
She also cautioned the singer that his probation would be void and that all of his charges would be changed to guilty verdicts on the original charges if he failed to fulfill the requirements of the probation or if he got into other legal issues during that period.
Watch the video below to see Wallen’s court appearance:
Two police officers were nearby when the chair Wallen flung fell, and after looking into it, they concluded he was the one who had attacked. Days later, he apologized to the public and fans, as if he had taken responsibility for his conduct.
He has maintained an extremely low profile since April, which included missing the 2024 CMA Awards, where he took home the Entertainer of the Year trophy.
The original August hearing was rescheduled for December four months ago. Although lawyer Worrick Robinson said earlier this week that a settlement might be imminent, the felony charges carried a potential jail sentence of several years.
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