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Justin Timberlake’s Lawyer Claims He Wasn’t Drunk and ‘Should Not Have Been Arrested for DWI’

Justin Timberlake's lawyer claims the singer was not drunk when he was arrested for a DWI in Sag Harbour, New York, last month.

“The most important fact to know about this case is that Justin was not intoxicated and should not have been arrested for DWI,” the lawyer, Ed Burke, said in a statement via Variety after a court hearing on Friday. “His eyes were bloodshot and glassy, a strong odor of alcoholic beverage was emanating from his breath, he was unable to divide attention, he had slowed speech, he was unsteady afoot, and he performed poorly on all standardized field sobriety tests,” the one-page filing by prosecutors based on the sworn statements of Sag Harbor Police Officer Michael D. Arkinson read. Timberlake, who is in the middle of a lengthy North American tour in support of his latest album, Everything I Thought It Was, briefly addressed the incident during a concert days later in Chicago.

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