Justin Timberlake may need an ace within the gap to get his DWI case dismissed … and it is a girl who took the keys to his automobile after his arrest … TMZ has realized.
As we reported, Justin was busted for drunk driving final month, after partying with buddies at a Sag Harbor resort. Cops say they noticed him blow a cease signal and swerve as he was following some buddies.
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After he was stopped, cops say he failed a number of sobriety area assessments and likewise smelled of alcohol. He refused to blow right into a Breathalyzer, and claimed he solely drank one martini.
Sources with direct data inform TMZ … the automobile Justin was following got here again to the place the singer was pulled over. There was a lady and her husband in that automobile, and the lady acquired out and went as much as one of many cops and commenced questioning him, asking, “Are you going to arrest Justin Timberlake?”
She then provided to drive Justin to their home, the place he was going to spend the evening … in different phrases, simply let him go and he or she and her husband would get him house safely. That technique didn’t work, and Justin was arrested.
Now here is the twist. Our sources say the lady requested cops if she may take Justin’s rental automobile to her home, provided that Justin was going to jail. The cops obliged, she acquired in Justin’s automobile and left.
We’re advised the lady had arrived at The American Lodge 2 hours earlier than Justin and was consuming … and it was obvious she had been consuming. But the two cops who have been on the scene let her take the wheel and drive away.
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We’re advised Justin’s lawyer, Edward Burke, Jr. — who’s attempting to get the case dismissed — will argue the two younger cops have been so off of their judgment, they let an individual who had clearly been consuming drive away, proper in entrance of their eyes. In the event that they have been unable to correctly consider her, how may they correctly consider him?
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Burke, we’re advised, will make that argument to the decide as a part of his movement to get the case 86’d.
