Justin Timberlake may have an ace up his sleeve to get his DUI case dismissed … and it’s a woman who took his car keys after his arrest … TMZ has learned.
As we reported, Justin was arrested for drunk driving last month after partying with friends at a Sag Harbor hotel. Police say they saw him run a stop sign and swerve while following some friends.
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After he was pulled over, officers said he failed several field sobriety tests and also smelled of alcohol. He refused to blow into a breathalyzer and claimed he had only had one martini.
Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … the car Justin was following drove back to where the singer was pulled over. There was a woman and her husband in that car, and the woman got out and walked up to one of the officers and started questioning him, asking, “Are you going to arrest Justin Timberlake?”
She then offered to drive Justin to their house, where he would spend the night… in other words, just let him go and she and her husband would get him home safely. This strategy didn’t work, and Justin was arrested.
Now here’s the twist. Our sources say the woman asked the cops if she could take Justin’s rental car to her house since Justin was going to jail. The cops complied, and she got into Justin’s car and drove away.
We were told that the woman had arrived at The American Hotel 2 hours before Justin and had been drinking… and it was clear that she had been drinking. However, the 2 officers on the scene allowed her to get behind the wheel and drive away.
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Justin’s lawyer told us, Edward Burke, Jr. — who is it trying to get the case dropped — will argue that the 2 young officers were so wrong in their judgment that they let a person who had clearly been drinking drive away, right in front of their eyes. If they couldn’t properly evaluate her, how could they properly evaluate him?
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Burke, we’re told, will present that argument to the judge as part of his motion to dismiss the case.