Justin Timberlake entered a responsible plea Friday morning in connection to his DWI case.
Timberlake arrived on the Sag Harbor Village Justice Courthouse on Lengthy Island, New York, alongside his legal professional Edward Burke Jr.
As a part of a deal reached with the courtroom, Timberlake pleaded responsible to a noncriminal site visitors violation of driving whereas impaired.
Discovering the settlement missing, Decide Carl Irace, who suspended Timberlake’s license in a listening to final month, requested Timberlake if he could be keen to volunteer at a nonprofit of his selecting.
“I’d be keen to,” Timberlake responded, agreeing to 25 to 40 hours of neighborhood service. He additionally agreed to pay a high-quality.
After the listening to, Timberlake spoke exterior the courthouse and advised reporters that he tries to carry himself “to a really excessive customary.”
“This was not that. I discovered myself ready the place I may have made a distinct resolution,” he mentioned. “Even in the event you had one drink, don’t get behind the wheel of a automobile. There’s so many alternate options. Name a good friend, take an Uber. … This was a mistake that I made, however I am hoping that whoever’s watching and listening proper now can study from this error. I do know that I actually have.”
Suffolk County District Lawyer Raymond Tierney praised Timberlake for taking accountability “and for utilizing his platform to extend public consciousness in regards to the risks of drunk driving.”
“Drunk and drugged driving is a particularly critical nationwide public security subject,” he mentioned in a press release. “In 2024, with the prevalence and comfort of public transit and ride-shares, there is no such thing as a excuse to get behind the wheel when you find yourself impaired in any approach.”
Timberlake’s legal professional mentioned that the singer had one drink in a two-hour span on the American Resort.
“Opposite to what was reported he wasn’t ingesting different individuals’s drinks or warned upfront to not drive,” he mentioned. “He wasn’t impolite, he wasn’t obnoxious, he wasn’t belligerent. In truth, he was well mannered, he was cooperative, he was respectful throughout his complete encounter with legislation enforcement as they have been to him.”
The legal professional mentioned the plea to a decreased cost is in step with the info of the case.
The Grammy winner was arrested June 18 on suspicion of intoxicated driving within the prosperous Hamptons space of Lengthy Island.
He had been having fun with a night with mates on the American Resort in Sag Harbor, earlier than he obtained behind the wheel of a grey Florida-registered BMW. Timberlake was pulled over after he ran a cease signal and arrested after failing his subject sobriety check, in accordance with a Sag Harbor Village police report.
Timberlake mentioned he had “one martini” earlier than he obtained behind the wheel and was following his mates dwelling. The officer who arrested the singer acknowledged in his report that Timberlake’s “eyes have been bloodshot and glassy, a robust odor of an alcoholic beverage was emanating from his breath, he was unable to divide consideration, he had slowed speech, he was unsteady afoot.”
Minyvonne Burke contributed.