Amber Heard to enchantment jury verdict; lawyer says verdict influenced by social media

By IANS

LOS ANGELES: Elaine Bredehoft, Amber Heard’s lawyer in her defamation trial in opposition to Johnny Depp, opened up in regards to the verdict in a no-hold-barred dialog with Savannah Guthrie on the NBC community’s ‘Today’ present.

She mentioned Heard will “absolutely” wish to enchantment the jury’s choice that was in favour of Depp. “She has some excellent grounds for it,” Bredehoft added, in response to ‘Variety’.

“She was demonised here,” Bredehoft added about Heard. “A number of things were allowed in this court that should not have been allowed, and it caused the jury to be confused. We weren’t allowed to tell them about the U.K. judgment.”

The lawyer was referring to the libel case Depp misplaced within the United Kingdom. The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ actor sued the favored British red-top tabloid, ‘The Sun’, for calling him a “wife beater” however misplaced the case.

Bredehoft additionally shared her perception that the vitriol Heard obtained on social media throughout the course of the high-profile trial most definitely impacted the jury, experiences ‘Variety’. Social media was largely on Depp’s aspect, in response to the lawyer, as was evident from the viral TikTok pattern by which customers broadly mocked Heard’s testimonies.

When requested if social media impacted the jury, Bredehoft replied: “Absolutely. Jurors [weren’t supposed to be looking at social media], but how can you not [be aware]? They went home every night. They have families. Their families are on social media. We had a 10-day break in the middle because of the judicial conference. There is no way they couldn’t have been influenced.”