Justin Timberlake has submitted a not responsible plea to a revised misdemeanor cost in connection to his June arrest for driving whereas intoxicated in Sag Harbor, New York, CNN studies. The singer’s drivers license was additionally suspended in the state of New York by Sag Harbor Village Justice Carl Irace.
Timberlake attended the listening to just about from Europe, the place he’s at the moment on tour behind his newest album All the pieces I Thought It Was. In the course of the listening to, Irace urged warning and threatened Timberlake’s counsel with a gag order, referring to feedback made outdoors of court docket to the media by the singer’s lawyer, Edward Burke. Burke beforehand disagreed with the declare that Timberlake was intoxicated, disputing to reporters that the police made “very significant errors” and asserting that “he was not intoxicated.”
Timberlake was trying to drive house from a celebration in June in the Hamptons when police seen him miss a cease signal and swerve out of his lane, police advised TMZ. He declined to take a breathalyzer and failed a area sobriety check: to face on one leg and do a walk-and-turn. “I had one martini and I followed my friends home,” he advised the officer, based on the police report. An extra convention listening to in the case is scheduled for August 9, which Timberlake just isn’t required to attend.
