{"id":32398,"date":"2022-06-01T18:15:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jury-reaches-verdict-in-johnny-depp-v-amber-heard-defamation-case\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T18:15:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:15:45","slug":"jury-reaches-verdict-in-johnny-depp-v-amber-heard-defamation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jury-reaches-verdict-in-johnny-depp-v-amber-heard-defamation-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury reaches verdict in Johnny Depp v Amber Heard defamation case"},"content":{"rendered":"
The jury has reached a verdict in the defamation trial opposing Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. <\/p>\n
The court in Fairfax, Virginia, issued an alert on Wednesday afternoon announcing the verdict would be read in court at 3pm after roughly 12 hours of deliberation. <\/p>\n
Mr Depp sued his ex-wife Ms Heard for $ 50m claiming she defamed him in an op-ed for The Washington Post <\/em>where she described herself as a victim of domestic abuse.<\/p>\n Ms Heard countersued her former husband for $ 100m claiming he launched a \u201csmear campaign\u201d against her.<\/p>\n Over the six-week trial beginning on 11 April, the court heard both Mr Depp and Ms Heard accuse each other of abuse and give vastly different accounts of particularly violent incidents during their relationship.<\/p>\n Both actors took the stand where they gave emotional testimony over several days. <\/p>\n Dozens of witnesses also testified in the case including famous faces supermodel Kate Moss and actor Ellen Barkin, as well as psychiatrists, police officers, Hollywood agents, friends and relatives.<\/p>\n On 27 May, jurors finally began deliberations after hearing closing statements where both parties claimed to be the victim and not the abuser, accused the other party of lying and insisted that they just wanted to get on with their lives.<\/p>\n Mr Depp’s lawyers told jurors that Ms Heard was the \u201cabuser\u201d and he was the \u201cabused\u201d during their tumultuous relationship.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is an abuser in this courtroom but it is not Mr Depp,\u201d said attorney Camille Vasquez.<\/p>\n “And there is a victim of domestic abuse in this courtroom but it is not Ms Heard.”<\/p>\n Ms Vasquez said that Mr Depp suffered \u201cpersistent verbal, physical and emotional abuse\u201d at the hands of Ms Heard and that, after the relationship ended, she continued the abuse by \u201cfalsely\u201d accusing him of domestic abuse.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat is at stake in this trial is a man’s good name. Even more than that what is at stake in this trial is a man’s life, \u201dshe said.<\/p>\n “The life that he lost when he was accused of a heinous crime and the life he could live when he is finally vindicated.”<\/p>\n