Justin Timberlake Was “Not Intoxicated” at Time of DWI Arrest and Police Made “Mistake,” His Lawyer Claims During Court Hearing

Despite Justin Timberlake being arrested for allegedly driving while intoxicated, his lawyer claimed in a Friday court hearing that he was “not intoxicated” when he was apprehended last month.

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“He was not intoxicated. I’ll say it again. Justin Timberlake was not intoxicated,” Timberlake’s attorney Ed Burke said during the Sag Harbor, New York, proceeding, as reported by ABC7NY . “And we are very confident that charge, that criminal charge, will be dismissed.”

Burke also argued that the police “made a number of very significant errors in this case.”

“You heard the DA try to fix one of those errors, but that’s just one, and there are many others. Sometimes the police, like every one of us, make mistakes. And that’s the case in this very instance,” the attorney continued. He also noted that his client “cooperated with the police offers from the second he was ordered out of his car to the second he was charged.”

As reported by The New York Post , the prosecutors arrived prepared with newly-signed paperwork. And Timberlake will be arraigned a second time with the correct documents.

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Timberlake was not present during the court proceedings, as he is set to perform two dates in Poland over the weekend as part of his Forget Tomorrow world tour. He is scheduled to appear virtually in court on Aug. 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 operating a 2025 BMW southbound on Madison Street, failing to stop at a duly posted stop sign and failing to maintain his lane of travel.”

Timberlake told the officer he had only had one drink, a martini, and refused to take a Breathalyzer test three times. He was arraigned at the Sag Harbor Justice Court on the same day as his arrest, at 9:30 a.m. In the complaint, it is stated that Timberlake’s 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 uneasy afoot and he performed poorly on all standardized field sobriety tests.”

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