The actress’s lawyers Amber Heard They have asked the American justice system to annul the sentence that was imposed on her in the defamation trial of her ex-husband. Johnny Depp and to order the celebration of a new process, local media report.
According to the appeal filed by the actress’s legal team before the Fairfax court, in Virginia, on July 1, the actress’s lawyers affirm that the recognized damages to Depp for the publication of an article in which Heard she said, without citing her ex-husband, having been subjected to sexual violence were excessive and not supported by the evidence at trial.
They also accuse the protagonist of Pirates of the Caribbean of failing to meet the legal requirements to show actual malicious intent, as the evidence supported Heard’s belief that she was a “victim of abuse at the hands of Mr. Depp”.
ERRORS AND LACK OF EVIDENCE
The two Hollywood stars were found liable for libel against each other at trial last month, but the jury awarded $10.3 million in damages to Johnny Depp and only from 2 million to Amber Heard.
Heard’s lawyers also claim that Depp and his team they couldn’t prove who suffered actual financial or reputational damage as a result of Heard’s op-ed in the newspaper The Washington Postwhich was the basis on which the case was sustained.
In addition, the legal team maintains that there was information errors about any of the members of the jury who acted in the hearing. The 15th juror appears to have been born in 1970, not 1945, say his lawyers, who question whether the jury was properly vetted or qualified to act as such.
The judgment issued unanimously by the jury on July 1 maintains that three sentences written by Heard in his opinion article published in 2018 by the newspaper The Washington Post they defamed him, although the actor also defamed his ex-wife on one occasion.
DELIBERATION
The jury of one of the most mediatic trials in the country in recent years, after three days of deliberations, considered that these three statements were false and were written with the aim of defaming the famous actor, despite the fact that the column did not mention at no time the name of Johnny Depp.
The actor asked his ex-partner for 50 million dollars in damages, although finally the actress must pay 10,350,000 in compensation. For her part, Amber Heard responded with a counterclaim in which he alleged that the actor had launched a smear campaign against him and claimed 100 million.
On the counterclaim, the jury considered that Depp defamed the actress on one occasion and Depp must pay her $2 million in compensation. (With information from EFE)
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