Justin Timberlake to appear in person at hearing for drink-driving case [Video]

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE IS scheduled to enter a new plea in his drink-driving case in New York’s Hamptons, US prosecutors said.

The pop singer is set to appear in person on Friday in Sag Harbor Village Court to enter a plea, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney’s office confirmed today.

Details of the plea deal were not disclosed, but a source told AP that Timberlake has agreed to plead guilty to a less serious offence than the original charge of driving while intoxicated.

His lawyer Edward Burke declined to comment.

Timberlake was arrested in the village of Sag Harbor, on the eastern end of Long Island, on 18 June after police said he drove through a stop sign, veered out of his lane and got out of his BMW smelling of alcohol.

The 43-year-old pleaded not guilty to a drink-driving charge.

At a hearing last month, a judge suspended Timberlake’s right to drive in New York.

Burke has maintained that Timberlake was not drunk and that …