Johnny Depp verdict newest: Actor shares video message with followers as Amber Heard attraction deadline looms

A lawyer representing Amber Heard in her defamation trial in opposition to Johnny Depp has spoken out following the decision to say that “an unlimited quantity of proof was suppressed” through the weeks-long trial.

Lawyer Elaine Bredehoft appeared on The Immediately Present on Thursday morning, hours after a jury decided Ms Heard defamed Mr Depp on all three counts in his lawsuit in opposition to her concerning a 2018 op-ed she wrote within the Washington Submit about being a sufferer of home abuse.

The jury additionally present in favour of one in every of three claims in Ms Heard’s countersuit, figuring out that Mr Depp’s lawyer had known as her abuse allegations in opposition to her ex-husband a hoax.

Amber Heard’s lawyer says that her consumer shall be unable to pay the thousands and thousands in damages she should hand over to Johnny Depp after a jury decided she defamed her ex-husband within the weeks-long trial.

Talking in the future after the decision was delivered, lawyer Elaine Bredehoft advised Savannah Guthri whereas showing on NBC’s The Immediately Present that her consumer is “completely not” capable of pay the $8.35m in damages that the Pirates of the Caribbean actor received after a jury deliberated for 3 days following the carefully adopted, and broadly panned, trial.

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Amongst these targetted on-line are actors Mia Farrow and Edward Norton.

Depp prevailed in his $50m (£40m) defamation lawsuit in opposition to his ex-wife Amber Heard over accusations of home abuse final week.

A seven-person civil jury in Virginia discovered that Ms Heard defamed the Pirates of the Caribbean and Implausible Beasts star when she implied he abused her in a 2018 op-ed for The Washington Submit.

The jury additionally upheld one in every of Ms Heard’s three claims in a $100m countersuit in opposition to Mr Depp and his lawyer, who had known as her unique allegations in 2016 an “ambush” and “a hoax”.

Neither aspect acquired the complete quantity they wished.

Heard’s sister Whitney Henriquez took to Instagram on Sunday to say she is “proud” of the Aquaman actor regardless of final week’s verdict.

“Yesterday, as we speak and tomorrow I’ll all the time be pleased with you for standing up for your self, for testifying each right here in Virginia and within the UK, and for being the voice of so many who can’t converse to the issues that occur behind closed doorways,” wrote Henriquez, who had testified through the trial.

“We knew that this was going to be an uphill battle and that the playing cards had been stacked in opposition to us. However you stood up and spoke out regardless.”

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Talking to Clémence Michallon about attraction choices, Jesse Weber, a bunch and lawyer on the Regulation & Crime community, pointed to statements made by Heard lawyer Elaine Bredehoft in interviews after the trial in looking for to stipulate potential methods for Ms Heard’s authorized group.

“The arguments on attraction are targeted on what Heard believes are incorrect authorized rulings by the decide. That’s the reason making objections and motions through the course of the trial is so necessary to protect these points for attraction,” he mentioned.

“Primarily based on Elaine Bredehoft’s feedback after the decision, it appears they are going to be specializing in proof that was ‘suppressed’ at trial, similar to medical information, and maybe arguing prejudicial proof from [Mr Depp] was allowed to be launched. It additionally appears [Ms Heard’s team] took concern with the truth that the UK ruling, the place a decide discovered a number of cases of abuse by [Mr Depp], couldn’t be offered to the jury.”

Mr Depp sued The Solar’s publishing firm in 2018 over a headline which had known as him a “spouse beater”. A decide dominated in opposition to him within the UK case in 2020.

Ms Heard’s attorneys “might additionally argue there have been issues with the jury directions/jury type,” Mr Weber added.

Depp and Jeff Beck racked up an enormous invoice at an Indian restaurant in Birmingham, following the actor’s defamation trial win.

On Sunday (5 June), the pair closed Varanasi restaurant to the general public, as they had been reportedly joined by 20 different buddies to share a meal.

In line with TMZ, the eatery’s Operations Director Mohammed Hussain mentioned Depp’s remaining invoice was round £50,000 ($60,000) in whole.

In an Instagram put up, the restaurant shared just a few photographs, together with a caption that learn: “Probably the most talked about particular person on the planet proper now joined us for dinner final night time!”

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In late 2019, it was introduced that Disney can be transferring ahead in growing a script for a Pirates of the Caribbean reboot.

On the time, it hadn’t formally been introduced whether or not Johnny Depp can be connected to the brand new undertaking.

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A girl has drawn blended reactions on-line after she gave herself a tattoo of Depp’s lawyer, Camille Vasquez.

All through the six-week trial, Vasquez grew to become one of many most well-known figures on the case. She’s since gained large consideration on-line and has been celebrated on Twitter and Instagram. Rumours additionally sparked that she has been relationship Depp, which Vasquez laughed at and declined to reply additional.

In a current video shared to TikTok, Jazzmyn Wollfe, documented how she gave herself “a Camille Vasquez tattoo”. She first confirmed a silhouette of the lawyer, drawn on a chunk of paper, who was standing in entrance of a microphone. Under the portrait, Wollfe wrote, “OBJECTION”.

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A courtroom stenographer from the defamation trial involving Johnny Depp and Amber Heard claimed jury members stored falling asleep throughout all the six-week-long proceedings.

In a brand new interview with the Regulation & Crime Community on Monday (6 June), stenographer Judy Bellinger claimed just a few jurors fell asleep at a number of factors through the trial.

“There have been just a few jurors who had been dozing off,” she mentioned. “And it was powerful. There have been a number of video depositions, and they’d simply sit there, and abruptly I’d see their head drop.”

Ms Bellinger additionally claimed that the juror who ended up paying essentially the most consideration was “sadly” not concerned within the remaining verdict.