The trial between Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard ended with the victory of Depp. He ended up winning $10 million in damages and Heard was awarded $2 million for one of her claims. But it looks like Heard isn’t happy with how the trial concluded.
She has claimed that the verdict was unjust and completely biased. The actress filed a motion in the court urging to toss the original verdict given by the court. Now the question is what’s the basis of the claims made by her legal team?
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Amber Heard Seeks To Overturn Verdict
The legal team of Amber Heard filed documents in the court that claimed that Depp “proceeded solely on a defamation by implication theory, abandoning any claims that Ms. Heard’s statements were actually false.” It also included a very specific information on one of the jurors in the jury. According to them, juror 15 on the panel may have been selected unlawfully by giving the wrong birthdate during jury selection.
The given birth certificate said 1945 instead of the actual year of 1970. “This discrepancy raises the question [of] whether Juror 15 actually received a summons for jury duty and was properly vetted by the court to serve on the jury,” the lawyers’ motion read. The fact still remains unclear whether the juror actually deliberately hampered the case.
Heard’s Lawyers Allege There’s “No Evidence” Against The Actress
Heard’s legal team also claimed that there is no proof on the fact that the 2018 op-ed damaged Depp’s reputation. “Mr. Depp presented no evidence of any pecuniary damages suffered in the limited December 18, 2018, through November 2, 2020 timeframe as a result of the Op-Ed,” the motion said. “There was no evidence of any project or lost commercial opportunities because of the Op-Ed.”
The papers still say that Depp was unable to completely discard the abuse claims made by Heard. “Mr. Depp was required to establish at the time the Op-Ed was published, Ms. Heard did not believe she had been abused or that she had doubts about whether she was abused,” the filing stated. “But Mr. Depp presented no evidence -that Ms. Heard did not believe she was abused. Instead, the evidence overwhelmingly supported [that] Ms. Heard believed she was the victim of abuse at the hands of Mr. Depp. “Therefore, Mr. Depp did not meet the legal requirements for actual malice, and the verdict should be set aside,” the papers said.
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