Lawyers for Tiffany Haddish have submitted a request to a Georgia court to have her 2022 driving under the influence arrest dismissed, citing time statutes.
Haddish, 46, was arrested in the early hours of January 14, 2022, in Peachtree City, Georgia after authorities were contacted about a driver on a highway sleeping at the wheel.
The Girls Trip star was pulled over as she stopped in the yard of a home and taken into custody, Peachtree City Police said in a news release at the time.
The Emmy-winning actress-comic was taken to the Fayette County Jail and released after she posted $1,666 bond.
More than four years later, attorneys for Haddish said in a court filing reviewed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the Like a Boss star’s constitutional right to a speedy trial has been breached with delays in the case, in requesting it be scuttled.
The Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for Haddish for further comment on the story.
Lawyers for Tiffany Haddish, 46, have submit a request to a Georgia court to have her 2022 driving under the influence arrest dismissed, citing time statutes. Pictured in LA last month
The legal team for the Los Angeles native said that the slow pace of the case has been ‘presumptively prejudicial’ by Georgia legal statutes.
The court has still not entered any orders more than two years after a motion to suppress hearing was conducted May 2, 2024, according to the legal team for the actress.
Prosecutors in Georgia twice last year filed motions to continue the case, in March and then May, lawyers for Haddish said in the filing.
Attorneys for the entertainer said in their filing they have declared themselves ‘ready for trial’ on at least 10 occasions, and followed up with the court on 12 occasions to flag the undetermined rulings.
Lawyers representing the star said she has missed out on ‘financial compensation’ of lost business opportunities due to the case being considered open.
The outstanding case has also complicated Haddish’s efforts to gain travel clearances to film in Australia, her attorneys told the court.
‘She has had difficulty obtaining the proper travel documents to work in certain countries who see a pending case as a concern; most recently Australia, within the past couple of months,’ attorneys for Haddish said in the filing, the paper reported.
They noted that Haddish ‘has had to hire costly third-party help to navigate those challenges with her travel.’
Haddish was arrested early January 14, 2022, in Peachtree City, Georgia after authorities were contacted about a driver on a highway sleeping at the wheel.
Haddish’s legal team said that time was a critical element in the case, as memories became less reliable with the passage of time.
Haddish’s legal team said the ‘she respectfully requests that the court find that this substantial delay without any apparent justification was in violation of her constitutional rights to a speedy trial under the United States and Georgia Constitutions and that the accusation against her be dismissed.’
A motion hearing in the case is slated to be held at 8:30 a.m. on November 7, per the Fayette County Clerk of Court’s website.
Haddish was again arrested in connection with driving under the influence less than two years later, the latter coming on November 24, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California.
In that incident, police said they found her sleeping in her automobile with the engine running, which was on Beverly Drive at the time. The latter led to a charge of improper stopping on a roadway.
Authorities said they believed Haddish was under the influence of marijuana at the time.
She ultimately took a plea deal in which she admitted to a charge of reckless driving, receiving probation.
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