JohnnyDeppVsAmberHeardTrial comes down to First Amendment ...& that could prove a,win for Pirates star Analysis by DeadlineDominic & tedstew
While Heard all but admitted during the trial that she was referring to Depp in theop-ed, Depp’s threshold for proving defamation, like all cases involving public figures, is high — even higher than for the UK case. Requiring a unanimous verdict, Depp has to show that not only was what Heard wrote false, but that it was written in an act of actual malice.
Fronted by Brown Ruddick’s Benjamin Chew and Camille Vasquez, Depp’s legal team, too, presented audio of Heard seemingly taunting Depp and his career, and at another point her admitting, “I did not punch you. I was hitting you.” In an incident that was referred to and analyzed multiple times during the trial, Depp claimed that, in an argument in March 2015, Heard threw a large vodka bottle at him, with the strike and exploding glass severing the tip of his finger.
Depp’s claim is that he was defamed by Heard, that his once blockbuster career suffered because of theop-ed. Heard’s team presented testimony from Depp’s then-UTA agent that the actor’s tardiness on sets and substance abuse were already becoming a major problem in 2015, well before the op-ed and even the couple’s 2016 temporary restraining order-tainted divorce.
The answer might be that Depp didn’t want to risk battling the deep-pocketed Bezos and instead decided to take what is essentially another divorce proceeding dressed up as a defamation case, the latter of which carried with it all of the risks that his and Heard’s dirty laundry would be aired in public, as it has been over the past three years in the docket and especially over the last two months in Judge Penney Azcarate’s courtroom.
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