Amber Heard and her attorneys made it clear they weren’t completed combating after her loss within the Johnny Depp defamation trial and their newest transfer might be their boldest one so far. Per The Los Angeles Occasions, Heard’s attorneys have requested the choose to toss out the $10.35 million verdict in opposition to the actress as a result of they imagine the decision wasn’t supported by the proof and that one of many jurors might not have been vetted correctly by the courtroom.
The post-trial motions had been filed on Friday and the attorneys state that the jury’s June 1 award of $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages to Depp was “extreme” and “indefensible.” They then go on to ask the choose to put aside the decision and dismiss Depp’s lawsuit or order a brand new trial.
Heard’s attorneys additionally need the choose to analyze “potential improper juror service.” They allege that one of many jurors who was chosen to serve on the jury was listed as being born in 1945 in paperwork given to the attorneys earlier than the jury choice course of however public information present they had been born in 1970. Per Heard’s attorneys, “This discrepancy raises the query whether or not Juror 15 really acquired a summons for jury responsibility and was correctly vetted by the Court docket to serve on the jury.”
As for why they imagine the decision wasn’t supported by the proof, the attorneys argued that to seek out that Heard has precise malice when talking in opposition to Depp, he would have needed to present that on the time of her op-ed article within the Washington Submit, which alleged abuse, that she didn’t imagine she had been abused. The movement acknowledged, “As a substitute, the proof overwhelmingly supported Ms. Heard believed she was the sufferer of abuse by the hands of Mr. Depp.”
It stays to be seen if this movement to throw out the decision will really work. It seems Heard and her authorized staff can’t fathom how the jury didn’t imagine she was really abused however I believe the laborious actuality that may ultimately sink in is that she simply wasn’t compelling sufficient when telling her story. They listened to weeks of testimony and heard either side and got here to the conclusion that she defamed him. It’s nicely inside her authorized proper to at the moment do what she’s doing however I do surprise how lengthy she’s going to drag this all out.
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