OAN Staff Avril Elfi
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 4:43 PM
Justin Timberlake is expected to plead guilty in his DWI case.
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Officials with the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said they “expect” Timberlake to plead guilty at a court hearing in Sag Harbor on Friday.
According to reports, a judge approved the deal to clear the DUI charge, but only if Timberlake complies with the deal.
TMZ Timberlake and prosecutors have reportedly come to an agreement to reduce his original charge of DUI to “driving with impaired ability,” meaning he will likely only be fined between $300 and $500 for the charge.
June 18NumberTimberlake was pulled over and arrested after “performing poor results on standard field sobriety tests.”
According to the lawsuit, the music star had “bloodshot and shiny eyes,” “a strong odor of alcoholic beverages emanating from his breath,” “inability to concentrate,” “spoke slowly” and “was unsteady on his gait.”
According to the documents, Timberlake told the arresting officers he had “just had one martini” and was following friends home.
After he was arrested, he refused to take a breathalyzer test, according to court documents.
Timberlake was originally charged with one count of DUI, as well as other charges relating to not keeping to the right and failing to stop at a stop sign.
Meanwhile, the pop star's lawyer, Ed Burke Jr., argued that police made “serious errors” during his arrest in June.
“The most important fact in this case is that Justin was not intoxicated and should not have been arrested for DUI,” Burke said in a statement. Fox News Digital“Police made a number of very serious mistakes in this case, and in court today we heard the district attorney attempt to correct one of those mistakes, but that was just one, there are many more. Police make mistakes sometimes, and this is just one example.”
Timberlake is scheduled to return to his Forget Tomorrow World Tour on September 28th.Number The group will perform in Newark, New Jersey, before traveling to Canada, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Houston, Orlando and other cities, before embarking on an international tour in 2025, visiting countries such as Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Denmark.
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