Justin Timberlake
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Despite Justin Timberlake being arrested for allegedly driving while intoxicated, his lawyer claimed at a court hearing on Friday that he was “not intoxicated” when he was pulled over last month.
“He was not intoxicated. I’ll say that again. Justin Timberlake was not intoxicated,” Timberlake’s attorney, Ed Burke, said during the proceedings in Sag Harbor, New York, ABC7NY reported. “And we’re very confident that that charge, that criminal charge, will be dismissed.”
Burke also argued that police “made a number of very significant mistakes in this case.”
“You heard the district attorney trying to right one of those wrongs, but that’s just one, and there are many others. Sometimes police, like all of us, make mistakes. And that’s the case in this very case,” the attorney continued. He also noted that his client “cooperated with police from the time they ordered him out of his car to the time they charged him.”
As reported by The New York PostProsecutors came prepared with newly signed paperwork and Timberlake will be arraigned a second time with the correct documents.
Timberlake was not present during the court proceedings, as he is scheduled to perform two dates in Poland over the weekend as part of his Forget Tomorrow world tour. He is scheduled to appear in court virtually on August 2.
Shortly after midnight on June 18, Timberlake was arrested by police in Sag Harbor for allegedly driving while intoxicated. According to a police statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, Timberlake was observed “driving a 2025 BMW southbound on Madison Street, disregarding a properly marked stop sign and failing to maintain his lane of travel.”
Timberlake told the officer he had only one drink, a martini, and refused to take a breathalyzer test three times. He was arraigned in Sag Harbor Justice Court on the same day of his arrest, at 9:30 a.m. The complaint states that Timberlake’s eyes “were bloodshot and glassy, a strong odor of alcoholic beverage emanated from his breath, he was unable to divide his attention, his speech was slowed, he walked uneasily, and he performed poorly on all standardized field sobriety tests.”
