Amber Heard’s lawyer urges court docket to toss out defamation trial verdict

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LOS ANGELES: Amber Heard needs the decision of the defamation trial in opposition to her ex-husband Johnny Depp to be tossed out. The ‘Aquaman’ actress’s lawyer filed a movement requesting that together with the $10.35 million in damages awarded to Depp by the jury, studies Variety.

In addition to Heard’s attorneys arguing that the decision shouldn’t be supported by proof, the 43-page doc submitted to the Fairfax County Circuit Court additionally calls “to investigate improper juror service”, ‘Variety’ provides.

It claimed that public info signifies {that a} juror who served in the course of the trial was born in 1970, regardless of court docket officers itemizing the individual’s start yr as 1945.

Heard’s attorneys wrote, “This discrepancy raises the question whether Juror 15 actually received a summons for jury duty and was properly vetted by the court to serve on the jury.”

Variety notes that Heard’s authorized workforce additionally argues that the jurors’ $10.35 million award in opposition to the actress is “inconsistent and irreconcilable” with the jury’s conclusion that each her and Depp had defamed each other.

In addition to Depp’s $10 million in compensatory damages, plus $350,000 in punitive damages, the jury additionally awarded Heard $2 million in compensatory damages for her counterclaim.

Heard’s attorneys additional wrote within the submitting that “Mr. Depp presented no evidence that Ms. Heard did not believe she was abused. Therefore, Mr. Depp did not meet the legal requirements for actual malice, and the verdict should be set aside.”

Depp’s lead lawyer, Ben Chew, commented on the movement to toss the decision, dismissing it as “what we expected, just longer, no more substantive” in an announcement to ‘Courthouse News’.