Justin Timberlake ’s lawyer stated Friday that the pop singer wasn’t intoxicated throughout a visitors cease final month, as he seeks to get his drunken driving cost in New York’s Hamptons dismissed, citing errors in paperwork submitted by police.
However Sag Harbor Village Justice Justice Carl Irace ordered Timberlake to be re-arraigned Aug. 2 with the corrected paperwork.
He additionally agreed the previous NSYNC member, who’s at present on tour in Europe, might seem nearly for the continuing. Timberlake didn’t attend Friday’s listening to as his look was waived upfront.
Timberlake’s lawyer, Edward Burke, stated after the listening to that police made “very significant errors” and expects the cost to be dismissed. He additionally maintained that Timberlake didn’t drive drunk.
“He was not intoxicated,” Burke informed reporters outdoors courtroom. “I’ll say it again. Justin Timberlake was not intoxicated.”
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Suffolk County District Legal professional Ray Tierney’s workplace, which is prosecuting the case, described the paperwork problem as a “ministerial error” and that an amended charging doc was filed July 2.
“The facts and circumstance of the case have not been changed or amended,” spokesperson Emily O’Neil stated in an electronic mail.
Burke, in a follow-up assertion, recommended there have been different issues with the arrest paperwork however didn’t elaborate.
“The police made a number of very significant errors in this case,” he stated. “In court today, you heard the district attorney try to fix one of those errors. But that’s just one and there are many others. Sometimes the police make mistakes and this is just one of those instances.”
Timberlake respects legislation enforcement and the judicial course of and cooperated with officers and handled them with respect all through his arrest final month, Burke added.
Tierney’s workplace declined to answer Burke’s feedback.
“We stand ready to litigate the underlying facts of this case in court, rather than in the press,” O’Neil stated.
Timberlake was charged with the misdemeanor on June 18 after police stated he ran a cease signal and veered out of his lane in Sag Harbor, a onetime whaling village talked about in Herman Melville’s basic novel “Moby-Dick” that’s nestled amid the Hamptons, round 100 miles (160 kilometers) east of New York Metropolis.
The boy band singer-turned-solo star and actor was driving a 2025 BMW round 12:30 a.m. when an officer stopped him and decided he was intoxicated, based on a courtroom doc.
“His eyes were bloodshot and glassy, a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage was emanating from his breath, he was unable to divide attention, he had slowed speech, he was unsteady afoot and he performed poorly on all standardized field sobriety tests,” the courtroom papers stated.
Timberlake, 43, informed the officer on the time that he had one martini and was following some pals dwelling, based on the paperwork. After being arrested and brought to a police station in close by East Hampton, he refused a breath check.
The ten-time Grammy winner started performing as a younger Disney Mouseketeer, rose to fame as a part of the boy band NSYNC and launched into a solo recording profession within the early 2000s.
Related Press reporter Karen Matthews in New York contributed to this story.
