Morgan Wallen, facing up to 6 years in prison, gets new court date

Morgan Wallen’s scheduled court date has been pushed back.

The country music singer, who was charged after police said he threw a chair from a rooftop bar, was scheduled to appear in a Nashville court on Aug. 15.

The date, per Taste of Country, has now been pushed back to Dec. 12.

Wallen is facing three felony charges after an incident at fellow country music star Eric Church’s bar.

Metro Nashville police officers were standing in front of Chief’s Bar at 10:53 p.m. on a Sunday night in April when a chair fell from the sixth story, landing roughly 3 feet from two officers.

Police viewed video which showed the country music singer “lunging and throwing an object over the roof,” his arrest report said. Witnesses told officers Wallen laughed afterward.

He was reportedly charged with disorderly conduct, danger to the public and three counts of reckless endangerment.

Per a PEOPLE report, because the chair landed so close to the officers and because of Wallen’s fame, his case is complicated. It reported that each of his felony charges “Could carry one to two years in prison.”

That means he could face up to six years, but criminal defense attorney David Raybin told PEOPLE the chances he serves those sentences consecutively are remote.

Mark Heim is a reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim. He can be heard on “The Opening Kickoff” on WNSP-FM 105.5 FM in Mobile or on the free Sound of Mobile App from 6 to 9 a.m. daily.