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Tiger Woods pleaded not guilty on Tuesday afternoon in his driving under the influence case that is the result of his car crash on March 27 near his home in Jupiter Island, Florida.
Woods, 50, entered a written plea of not guilty and planned to waive his appearance during an arraignment next month, according to an online court docket in Martin County, Florida. He is also asking for a jury trial.
Woods’ defence attorney is Douglas Duncan, who represented him in the 2017 case in which Woods was arrested for DUI when found asleep behind the wheel of his car. In that case, Woods was found to have five drugs in his system. He ultimately pleaded guilty to reckless driving and agreed to enter a diversion program as part of a plea deal.
Earlier in the day, the Martin County Sheriff’s Department released a probable cause affidavit that said Woods was found carrying two hydrocodone pills in his pants pocket following the crash in which he was allegedly driving at a high rate of speed when he clipped the trailer of a work truck and his car flipped onto its left side.
The document said Woods told a sheriff’s deputy that he was looking at his cell phone and changing the radio station, and failed to notice the vehicle ahead of him.
Upon assessing Woods at the scene, the deputy observed several impairment indicators, including: profuse sweating, bloodshot eyes with extremely dilated pupils, lethargic and slow movements, and persistent hiccups.
Woods was arrested at the scene, and once he was taken to the sheriff’s station, he agreed to an alcohol breathalyser test, which he passed, but declined to provide a urine sample. He was charged with DUI, damage of property and refusing to provide the sample.
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