Justin Timberlake has entered a not guilty plea to a revised misdemeanor charge in connection with his June drunken driving arrest in Sag Harbor, New York, CNN reports. The singer's driver's license was also suspended in New York state by Sag Harbor Village Judge Carl Irace.
Timberlake attended the audition virtually from Europe, where he is currently on tour behind his latest album Everything I thought it was. During the hearing, Iris called for attention and threatened Timberlake's lawyer with a gag order, referring to comments made outside court to the media by the singer's lawyer, Edward Burke. Burke previously disputed the claim that Timberlake was drunk, disputing to reporters that police made “very significant mistakes” and claiming that he was “not drunk.”
Timberlake was trying to drive home from a party in June in the Hamptons when police noticed he ran a stop sign and left his lane, police told TMZ. He refused to take a breathalyzer test and failed field sobriety tests: stand on one leg and do a walk and turn. “I had a martini and followed my friends home,” he told the officer, according to the police report. A further conference hearing in the case is scheduled for August 9, which Timberlake is not required to attend.
