Justin Timberlake appeared just about for a court docket look within the Hamptons on Friday following his arrest for driving whereas intoxicating in June.
He pleaded not responsible for a second time in Sag Harbor Village Justice Court docket in New York, a number of shops reported on Friday, after his legal professional had beforehand filed a movement to dismiss the costs on account of a superior officer not signing the preliminary charging papers.
Timberlake’s license was suspended as a part of the arrest. On Friday, his lawyer, Ed Burke, clarified that, since he has an out-of-state license, it solely impacts his capacity to drive in New York. “That is commonplace process with each DWI case,” he informed reporters, in keeping with ABC Information.
The re-arraignment comes per week after Burke had stated throughout a continuing on July 26 that Timberlake was “not intoxicated” when he was arrested. “I’ll say it once more. Justin Timberlake was not intoxicated. And we’re very assured that cost, that prison cost, will likely be dismissed,” the legal professional stated on the time, additionally arguing that the police made a number of “very vital errors on this case.”
Whereas Timberlake didn’t have to seem in particular person for this listening to, there could come a time when he does, and the decide requested the legal professional to make sure the artist will likely be accessible regardless of being on his Neglect Tomorrow World Tour for his new album Every thing I Thought It Was. The singer has live shows this weekend in Antwerp, Belgium.
The subsequent court docket listening to is a lawyer convention, which can happen on Aug. 9.
After being arrested on June 18, Timberlake, who claimed he solely had one martini however carried out poorly on subject sobriety exams, was “launched on his personal recognizance,” in keeping with a police assertion on the time. In its personal report, the court docket added: “His eyes had been bloodshot and glassy, a powerful odor of an alcoholic beverage was emanating from his breath, he was unable to divide consideration, he had slowed speech, he was unsteady afoot and he carried out poorly on all standardized subject sobriety exams.”
The previous NSYNC frontman addressed the arrest at his first present after the incident, saying, “We’ve been collectively via ups and downs, lefts and rights. It’s been a troublesome week, however you’re right here and I’m right here, and nothing can change this second proper now.”
