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UPDATED throughout: Justin Timberlake will be arraigned next Friday on a misdemeanor charge of driving drunk in June in this waterfront village about 100 miles from New York City, and the pop singer will appear for the hearing virtually, by a remote link while he is on tour in Europe, a judge ruled on Friday.

Sag Harbor Village Justice Carl Irace also agreed to review a motion by Timberlake’s attorney, Edward D. Burke Jr., to dismiss the case outright based on what Burke called a procedurally “defective” criminal complaint filed by the Sag Harbor Village Police officer who arrested Timberlake.

Burke said that the local police department failed to have a supervising officer sign off on the criminal complaint that detailed the “young” and “part-time” officer’s interactions with Timberlake.

Irace said the arraignment will still go forward based on a revised criminal complaint filed earlier in July by the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office. A prosecutor, Ashley Cangro, said the paperwork issue raised by Burke has no bearing ”on the facts of the case.”

Timberlake has a concert scheduled for tonight in Krakow, Poland. Irace briefly paused the half-hour hearing so that Burke could find a workable court date next week for his client. “Find out what day — whoever you have to talk to — what day we can do a video arraignment with your client.”

The Timberlake hearing was squeezed in between a string of local traffic infraction cases as defendants, some with lawyers and some without, filed in and out of the village’s second-story courtroom, which seats about 30 people at capacity.

Outside the red-brick municipal building housing the court, Burke told reporters, “The most important thing we have to say today is obviously that Justin should not have been arrested for driving while intoxicated. The police made a number of very significant errors in this case, and you heard the District Attorney try to fix one of those errors just this morning upstairs in court.”

Burke emphasized that his client respects law enforcement and the judiciary, but said that police officers, being human, sometimes “make mistakes.” He added that Timberlake “cooperated with the police officers from the second he was ordered out of his car to the second he was discharged on June 18th” by the same judge.

“But the facts remain,” Burke added, “he was not intoxicated. I’ll say it again: Justin Timberlake was not intoxicated and we’re confident that charge — that criminal charge — will be dismissed.”

Burke said Timberlake is doing well despite legal difficulties coinciding with an international tour. “He’s doing just fine,” Burke said. “Very busy.”

Deadline is seeking a comment from the Suffolk District Attorney’s office on Burke’s claim of police mistakes.

Timberlake was arrested for drunk driving in the wee hours of June 18 after a night out with friends in this popular summer beach destination, where weekend visitors and vacationers mingle with the wealthy residents and longtime locals of Long Island’s tony Hamptons region. The Grammy-winning pop singer and Emmy-winning actor was on a weeklong break from the international tour in support of his latest album, Everything I Thought It Was.

Timberlake had been with a group of people that night at the bar and restaurant inside The American Hotel, a favorite spot in a landmarked 19th Century building on Sag Harbor’s picturesque Main Street. The former ’N Sync vocalist was pulled over after midnight in a gray new-model BMW SUV with Florida license plates for driving erratically and running stop sign on a residential street about a half-mile from the restaurant, according to the criminal complaint filed by the Sag Harbor Village Police officer who stopped and then arrested him.

The officer wrote that Timberlake was driving “in an intoxicated condition,” and that his eyes were “bloodshot and glassy” while he also emitted “a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage.”

“I had one martini and I followed my friends home,” he told the officer, according to the police report. But he “performed poorly on all standardized field sobriety tests,” and then refused a breathalyzer test, saying, “No, I’m not doing a chemical test,” the officer wrote. Timberlake was arrested, spent the rest of the night in a local lockup, and was released in the morning.

As a first-time offender facing a misdemeanor DWI charge, Timberlake could face up to a year behind bars and a fine up to $2,500, and a loss of driving privileges in New York. He has pleaded not guilty to driving while intoxicated and to assorted traffic violations. His lawyer, Edward Burke Jr., has vowed to fight the charges and has emphasized that no one was hurt by his client.

Timberlake began his entertainment career as a Disney Mouseketeer and then became a member of the harmonizing, dancing teen-pop band ’N Sync, of “Bye Bye Bye” fame. A favorite of the group’s young fans, Timberlake in the early 2000s managed the rare feat of moving on from a millions-selling band to a thriving solo career that equaled or surpassed his first act.

Timberlake on his own racked up hits including “Cry Me a River” and “SexyBack” with an accessible sound straddling funk, pop and club music, and he wielded enough crossover clout to net collaborations with rap and r&b icons including Jay-Z, Drake, Rihanna and Missy Elliott.

His screen career also took off, with roles in everything from The Social Network to Trolls. But it’s been a challenging few years for the onetime boy-band sensation turned solo pop phenomenon and standout Saturday Night Live guest host.

Timberlake has faced scrutiny of his behavior toward fellow pop star and Disney alumnus Britney Spears during and after the years they dated. A 2021 documentary, Malfunction, about the fallout from Janet Jackson’s infamous “wardrobe malfunction” at a 2004 Super Bowl halftime show with Timberlake, questioned why the brunt of the criticism fell on Jackson while Timberlake’s career was unscathed.

Timberlake is also dealing with an issue familiar to any veteran pop star: How to stay relevant as your core audience ages and younger listeners tune into newer acts. Timberlake’s new album, billed as a return to his roots, bowed to underwhelming reviews and didn’t continue his long streak of No. 1’s. Page Six reported that the young officer who arrested Timberlake had no idea who he was