Follow up: Nazik Issa
Actress Amber Heard has decided to release and lose the lawyer who defended her in the defamation trial against her ex-husband Johnny Depp, at the start of her attempt to appeal the verdict.
Heard preferred to separate from attorney Eileen Charlson Bredehoft and be replaced by attorneys David L. Axelrod and Jay Ward Brown represented The New York Times earlier this year in a defamation suit against 2008 US Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
“When it comes to protecting the fundamental right to free speech, we don’t view the jury’s decision as the beginning of the end, but only the end of the beginning,” a Heard spokesman said in a statement.
He continued, “The appeals court is a different court and calls for different representation, especially since a lot of new evidence is emerging now.”