Popular country singer Morgan Wallen, was arrested on Monday, April 8th after throwing a chair from a rooftop bar in Nashville. He was charged with three felony charges for reckless endangerment, as announced in an X post by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department.
Rither Alabre, a current partner at White Collar Defense & Investigation Practice Group at Blank Rome LLP, told Fox News that, “The felony charges are the most serious ones, and could land Wallen in jail for up to six years if he is prosecuted and convicted of those charges. The reckless endangerment counts could have been charged as misdemeanors, which would have made them less serious and exposed Wallen to a maximum of up to 11 months and 29 days in jail.”
The chair allegedly landed near civilians and police members. This led it to the incident becoming categorized as a class E felony, as the chair could have acted as a deadly weapon.
Wallen was released from prison at 3:30 am Monday on a $15,250 bond.
