Half a year after the case in which Johnny Deep emerged victorious closed, Amber Heard is seeking a new defamation trial against her ex-husband, alleging that the court battle he lost was rigged against him.
In this same sense, the Aquaman actress, who is currently 36 years old, filed her appeal earlier this month, arguing that the exclusion of the therapy notes in which she denounced having been the victim of a series of abuses, gave place that this has been an unfair trial, according to the actress.
In addition, he added that Judge Penney Azcarate, of Fairfax County (Virginia), had dismissed the evidence as talk or hearsay.
“The trial court improperly barred the jury from considering several separate cases in which Heard informed a medical professional of Depp’s abuse,” Heard’s lawyers wrote in the 68-page document dated Nov. 23.
“If not overturned, the trial court’s exclusion of contemporaneous reports of domestic abuse to medical professionals will make it more difficult for other abuse victims to prove abuse allegations, and likely discourage them from coming forward,” they wrote.
Johnny Depp, 59, emerged victorious and Heard was sentenced in June to pay $10.35 million after arguing that his wife’s Washington Post op-ed, in which she claimed she had been abused, was defamatory. .
Heard’s lawyers also argued that the trial should have been held in California, where the couple lived together, rather than Virginia.
Virginia was a “totally inconvenient forum with no connection to Depp or any significant connection to his claims,” the filing states.
The case “should never have come to trial because another court had already concluded that Depp abused Heard on multiple occasions,” add his lawyers, referring to the 2020 British judgment in favor of the British newspaper The Sun, which Depp had sued. for calling him a “woman abuser”.
A panel of judges will rule on the petitions and each party will then have the chance to appeal one more time.
Johnny Depp refuses to pay millionaire figure to Amber Heard
After several months later, the verdict that gave partial victory to actor Johnny Depp in the case with his ex-wife, Amber Heard, who received the brunt of the ruling, since while she must pay more than $10 million dollars to the interpreter of Pirates of the Caribbean, Depp has to pay only $2 million dollars to Heard.
However, the actor decided that it had been a “wrong” ruling, so, refusing to pay the large sum of money to his ex-partner, he started a process in the Virginia Court of Appeals, indicating that he did not agree with the decision indicating that he had slandered his ex-partner, so he would not have to give him the requested money.
It is worth remembering that, after the ruling handed down by the jury, after six weeks of hearings, Depp stressed that he felt at peace and that the decision had “returned his life”, however, he would now be refuting the first instance guidelines , stating that he did not slander Heard.
“I feel at peace knowing that I have achieved it… the jury has given me my life back,” Depp said upon hearing the jury’s decision in June of this year.
Now, the actor’s lawyers’ committee, when filing the appeal in Virginia, stressed that they were looking for another agreement, much more favorable to Depp, although they did not give further details about it: “The ruling in favor of Ms. Heard in that single statement It is wrong”, affirmed the legal representatives, according to Law and Crime.
