Justin Timberlake has remained tight-lipped in the aftermath of his DWI arrest ... but his lawyer says he's ready to fight tooth and nail for his client, which is interesting.
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00:00It looks like Justin Timberlake is gearing up for a fight.
00:04If you believe, his lawyer, and his lawyer is a guy
00:08who is well known in the Hamptons.
00:11His name is Ed Burke Jr.
00:14And he is a really good lawyer.
00:16And I've talked to people in the Hamptons.
00:19Represents a lot of people.
00:20And he is gearing up for a fight.
00:22Yeah, that's what it sounds like.
00:24I mean, after the DUI arrest, DWI arrest,
00:28we kind of figured that this is just something,
00:30it's a first offense for Justin.
00:32He will settle it and we'll just move on.
00:35It's not gonna be a big deal.
00:36His lawyer is making it seem like
00:38there's something that we don't know here.
00:40At least, maybe something that may come out
00:42on the body cam based on this statement.
00:45This is what Ed Burke told us.
00:46He said,
00:59Here's the problem with this.
01:00The full discovery from the DA's office.
01:02Yeah, the discovery from the DA's office
01:03involves obviously the body cam, the blood.
01:07Well, they don't really have a breathalyzer.
01:10And therein lies the problem.
01:11I mean, look, this case is never going to go to trial.
01:16The fact that Justin refused the breathalyzer
01:20is almost end of story.
01:23Because it ends up being essentially his story against.
01:27The police who did a field sobriety test
01:29and everything else.
01:30And in terms of, you know,
01:31did they have probable cause to stop him?
01:33If they have body cam video showing him
01:35blowing a stop sign and then swerving, that's enough.
01:40What I'm getting at is this.
01:41It is a first offense.
01:43These things almost always settle.
01:46And with a plea bargain.
01:48And, you know, it could be that he ends up
01:51pleading to reckless driving and he might,
01:54and I'm sure he's gonna get a license suspension
01:56because of the failure to take the breathalyzer test.
01:59But my guess is this will plead out as a reckless.
02:03And the question is, is it wet reckless
02:05or just ordinary reckless?
02:07Please explain that.
02:09A wet reckless is involving alcohol.
02:13And what a lawyer will try and do
02:16is eliminate the wet part and just make it reckless driving.
02:19And I think that's where the battle is gonna lie.
02:22But this is never gonna go to trial.
02:24So Harvey, if you're right,
02:25which by the way, I agree with you.
02:26I think he is gonna plead out.
02:27It's not gonna go to trial.
02:29If that's in fact the case,
02:30why do you think his attorney is telegraphing
02:34that he's gonna put up a fight?
02:35Because this to me on its face
02:37seems like Justin is gonna fight this.
02:40He thinks he was wrongly arrested.
02:41That's kind of what I'm gleaning from this.
02:43And if that's the case,
02:44why would you even be pushing back on that?
02:47Because this seems quite strong, right?
02:49But that's what you, as the attorney,
02:50a good defense attorney says that
02:53he does not wanna look like
02:54he's gonna roll over on this thing.
02:56That helps you in negotiating
02:57whatever the terms of the plea deal are gonna end up being.
03:01Because look.
03:02You have to have a strong position.
03:03Now again, the body cam is really critical.
03:06Back in the day when you didn't have a body cam,
03:08it would be the cop's word against the person arrested.
03:13But here, look, it's gonna speak for itself.
03:15The refusal of the breathalyzer is objective
03:18because you have to submit if you're driving a car
03:22and they stop you and ask if there's probable cause.
03:25I don't see how you get around the probable cause
03:27if you blew the stop sign and it was swerving.
03:29So to me, this is whether it's gonna be a wet reckless
03:33or whether it's gonna be straight reckless.
03:36One other thing here that Justin's wife, Jessica Biel,
03:41is not far from him.
03:42Actually, it's a couple hours.
03:44That's if you have no traffic.
03:46She's in New York City working on a show for Amazon Prime.
03:49And she was unfazed by what's going on out on Long Island.
03:55Unfazed based on the photograph.
03:57Well, the fact that she's at work,
03:59was still shooting the show.
04:01Charles, she's fazed.
04:02You think she's fazed?
04:03You know she's fazed.
04:05This is her coming out after they had kids.
04:09She kind of put her career on hold.
04:11She's going back in.
04:12And now all of a sudden, this headline is kind of.
04:14It is really bad timing for her.
04:16Plus, bad for the family.
04:17Right, bad for the family, bad timing for her.
04:20You're right, that she's getting back out there.
04:21And as it happens, then Justin has this arrest.
04:25But I think she's unfazed in that.
04:28Do you think she got up in the morning and was like,
04:31maybe I'm not gonna go to work today?
04:32No, of course she was gonna.
04:33I'm not saying that.
04:34But you know that this.
04:37It was on her mind, clearly.
04:39Clearly.
04:40So bad timing for her.
04:41You know what it's good timing for?
04:43For the American Hotel right now,
04:45which I'm sure is getting a ton of publicity,
04:46ton of people coming by.
04:48Speaking of the American Hotel,
04:50we actually spoke with the owner of that place,
04:51and he tells us that Justin is welcome back anytime,
04:55open arms, and that he kind of gave a little more clarity
04:58in terms of what he says he and his staff did that night,
05:01in terms of, because there's all these rumors and reports
05:03that Justin was like drinking a ton at the hotel
05:06and grabbing other people's drink, et cetera.
05:08Ted Conklin, the owner of the American Hotel,
05:10says they did not over-serve him.
05:12He's saying that clearly.
05:13We didn't over-serve him.
05:14Our staff acted properly.
05:15But at the same breath, he's saying.
05:16That doesn't really respond to the allegation
05:19about how much Justin was drinking.
05:21He's just saying we didn't over-serve him.
05:23Over-serve is a relative term,
05:25because you can get drunk in a bar
05:28as long as you're not the one driving,
05:30and it's not over-serving.
05:31So it's kind of a murky thing,
05:34that if you have a .16, which means you're wasted,
05:39if somebody else is driving,
05:41that's technically not over-serving.
05:44And let's be honest, I mean,
05:46Ted Conklin, I'm sure, is a lovely guy,
05:49but he's running a business in a town
05:51that is a hotspot for celebrities in the summertime, right?
05:55So he's never gonna have anything bad to say
05:57about a celebrity unless they very clearly
06:01do something bad in the hotels.
06:02By the way, just real quickly,
06:03Britney Spears, who has had her issues
06:06with Justin Timberlake, and you know all the history,
06:09we're not gonna get into it,
06:10she posted what looks like something cryptic.
06:14I kind of viewed this differently.
06:16So she posts a drink.
06:18A cocktail that she's having in Vegas.
06:21She was very excited about being in Vegas again,
06:23and she said, it's the little things, you know?
06:26So some people say this is shade on.
06:28With the flower emoji.
06:29So I think she's referring to,
06:30she's excited about her drink
06:32and the fact that it was served with a flower in it.
06:34The problem I have with this
06:35is not whether it's shade on Justin.
06:37She shouldn't be drinking.
06:38She has a substance abuse problem,
06:40and drinking for her is really, really bad.
06:43So I know we kind of harp on this,
06:45but a lot of people are really concerned about that.
06:48So anyway.
06:49Hi, I'm Meg.
06:50I'm based in New York.
06:52And do we think Justin's PR team is doing damage control
06:56when it comes to the relationship
06:58with the hotel in Sag Harbor?
07:00I feel like there was some type of apologetic payoff.
07:04It seems a little suspiciously friendly to me.
07:08Also, I feel terrible.
07:10I feel terrible for Jessica Biel in this situation,
07:13working in the city on a project
07:15and getting a call that her husband is in jail
07:18was probably not on her bingo card for the day.
07:21No, that's for sure.
07:22By the way, are you in a cabin?
07:23Cause that's awesome.
07:24I love that room.
07:25I am.
07:26I am on vacation currently.
07:28It's really cool.
07:29I just, that looks great.