(12 Dec 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nashville, Tennessee – 12 December 2024
1. Wide of Morgan Wallen entering courtroom
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Nashville, Tennessee – 12 December 2024
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Joey Clifton, Davidson County Assistant District Attorney:
"Your Honor, if this matter proceeded to trial, the proof would be that on April the 7th of 2024, the defendant was at Chiefs Bar and Restaurant, located at 200 Broadway Avenue. Defendant was on the sixth floor of the rooftop bar. The defendant picked up a chair, threw it off the sixth floor. The chair landed on Broadway approximately three feet from where officers Gavin Treese and Officer Yurislav Holikov were standing, placing them in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury. All these events happened in Nashville, Davidson County, and based on those facts, the state would recommend the previously announced agreement. Your Honor, I’d like to say that officers Gavin Treese and Officer Holikov called were both consulted about this plea and both approved it."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Judge Cynthia Chappell:
"You are waiving your right to have your case presented to the Davidson County grand jury, is that right?"
UPSOUND (English) Morgan Wallen: "Yes, ma’am."
Chappell: All right. You were charged in case 2024i687 with two counts of misdemeanor reckless endangerment."
4. UPSOUND (English) Judge Cynthia Chappell:
"Mr. Wallen, did you hear the facts as read by the assistant district attorney?"
Morgan Wallen: "I did hear them."
Chappell: "Are those facts true and correct?"
Morgan Wallen: "Substantially, yes."
Chappell: "Are you waiving your right here today and entering a plea of guilty in your pending case?"
Wallen: "Conditionally guilty, Yes, ma’am."
Chappell: "In case number 2024i687, where you were charged with two counts of reckless endangerment. How do you plead sir?
Wallen: "Conditionally guilty."
Chappell: "All right, Mr. Robinson, anything further?"
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Judge Cynthia Chappell:
"On the other hand, if you do not successfully complete your probation or you have other arrests or trouble with the law, you run the risk of losing your judicial diversion status. And if that happens, these offenses convert to convictions on your record. Do you understand that sir?"
UPSOUND (English) Morgan Wallen:
"Your honor, I understand."
6. UPSOUND (English) Judge Cynthia Chappell:
"You understand you’re charged with more than one count. And I want to make sure you understand. If you were convicted of two counts, you would receive a separate sentence for each of those counts. Do you understand that?"
Morgan Wallen: "Yes, ma’am."
Chappell: "Do you understand what it takes under the law to be found guilty of what you’re charged with, sir?"
Wallen: "Yes, ma’am."
Chappell: "I understand that you are entering a plea of guilty to two counts of reckless endangerment. You will receive a sentence of 11 months and 29 days, all suspended except seven days incarceration, which will be served in a DUI education center. The remainder of that sentence will be served on supervised probation. These counts run consecutive to each other. That is one after the other for an effective sentence of two years. And the sentence is pursuant to judicial diversion, which we will talk about a little bit later. Is this your understanding, sir, of what you are pleading guilty to and the punishment being imposed?"
Worrrck Robinson, attorney for Morgan Wallen: "Yes, Your Honor. We talked about the formal conditional guilty plea, but yes, he understands."
Wallen: "Yes, ma’am."
Chappell: "All right."
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