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 reports. The singer’s drivers license was additionally suspended within 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 presently on tour behind his newest album Everything I Thought It Was. Throughout the listening to, Irace urged warning and threatened Timberlake’s counsel with a gag order, referring to feedback made exterior of court docket to the media by the singer’s lawyer, Edward Burke. Burke previously disagreed with the declare that Timberlake was intoxicated, disputing to reporters that the police made “very important errors” and asserting that “he was not intoxicated.”
Timberlake was making an attempt to drive house from a celebration in June within the Hamptons when police seen him miss a cease signal and swerve out of his lane, police told TMZ. He declined to take a breathalyzer and failed a subject sobriety check: to face on one leg and do a walk-and-turn. “I had one martini and I adopted my pals house,” he advised the officer, based on the police report. An additional convention listening to within the case is scheduled for August 9, which Timberlake just isn’t required to attend.