SANDPOINT — An arraignment hearing was vacated Thursday for a Bonner County man accused of breaking a Hope man’s collarbone in a bar brawl last year.

Defense counsel for Adam Oliver Finney and Kootenai County Deputy Prosecutor Laura McClinton moved jointly on Thursday to call off the hearing in 1st District Court. No grounds were cited for the postponement, court records show.

An inquiry about the reason for the postponement was not immediately returned by McClinton on Thursday. A new arraignment hearing date is pending.

Finney, 21, is accused of inflicting great bodily harm on the 28-year-old during a chaotic brawl outside the Cabinet Mountain Bar & Grill in Clark Fork on April 22, 2017. The altercation stemmed from an exchange of words between the alleged victim and Finney’s father earlier in the evening, according to preliminary hearing testimony in the case.

The verbal exchange reignited after the Finneys left the bar and returned and morphed into a multi-combatant struggle outside the bar.

The alleged victim identified the younger Finney as one of his assailants.

The state relied on witness accounts of the fight during last month’s preliminary hearing, while the defense relied on surveillance camera footage in an attempt to contradict witness accounts.

Judge William Hammlett ruled that the testimony was credible enough to justify trying Finney on the felony charge. Finney is free on bond while the case is pending.

Finney’s father, Rex, was charged with two counts of aggravated battery for his involvement in the altercation, although the offenses were reduced to misdemeanor charges of disturbing the peace prior to a preliminary hearing. Rex Finney, 43-year-old local attorney, was given a 180-day jail sentence with 170 days suspended and the remainder of the custodial sentence converted to 100 hours of community service and pro bono legal aid for the Idaho Volunteer Lawyers Program.

Rex Finney’s convictions can be removed from his record on successful completion of his court-ordered obligations.

Keith Kinnaird can be reached by email at kkinnaird@bonnercountydailybee.com and follow him on Twitter @KeithDailyBee.