{"id":39415,"date":"2022-06-06T21:03:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T21:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/johnny-depp-v-amber-heard-court-stenographer-says-a-few-jurors-fell-asleep-throughout-trial\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T21:03:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T21:03:14","slug":"johnny-depp-v-amber-heard-court-stenographer-says-a-few-jurors-fell-asleep-throughout-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/johnny-depp-v-amber-heard-court-stenographer-says-a-few-jurors-fell-asleep-throughout-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard Court Stenographer Says a ‘Few’ Jurors Fell Asleep Throughout Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some of the jurors in the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard defamation case struggled to stay awake during the entire six-week trial, according to the court stenographer.<\/p>\n

A seven-person jury, consisting of five men and two women, sided mostly with Depp in their verdict that was handed down on Wednesday afternoon in Virginia’s Fairfax County Courthouse. They awarded him $ 15 million in damages (which was reduced to $ 10.35 million due to a state law), finding that Heard defamed her ex-husband di lei in her 2018 op-ed about domestic abuse, though she didn’t mention him by name in the article.<\/p>\n

For her defamation countersuit, Heard was awarded $ 2 million in damages. She plans to appeal the verdict.<\/p>\n

In a clip<\/a> from a new interview with Law & Crime Network, Judy Bellinger – who served as the court reporter and was called a “rockstar” by Judge Penney Azcarate – said that a “few” of the jurors drifted asleep at points during the trial. The juror’s names will be sealed for at least one year, the judge previously ruled.<\/p>\n

“There were a few jurors who were dozing off,” she said, adding that the sleeping jurors were in both the front and back rows. “And it was tough. There were a lot of video deposition, and they would just sit there and all of a sudden I’d see their head drop.”<\/p>\n

RELATED: Courtroom Wristbands from Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard Trial Are Selling Online for Nearly $ 5K<\/strong><\/p>\n

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