{"id":40513,"date":"2022-06-07T15:21:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T15:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/depp-v-heard-stenographer-says-jurors-were-dozing-off\/"},"modified":"2022-06-07T15:21:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T15:21:30","slug":"depp-v-heard-stenographer-says-jurors-were-dozing-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/depp-v-heard-stenographer-says-jurors-were-dozing-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Depp v.  Heard stenographer says jurors were &#8216;dozing off&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>While the masses were rapt as Johnny Depp and Amber Heard hashed it out on livestreams &#8211; the people in the courtroom were struggling to stay awake. <\/p>\n<p>Judy Bellinger, the court stenographer for the Depp v.  Heard defamation trial, has dropped some bombshell revelations about the contentious six-week courtroom marathon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were a few jurors who were dozing off,\u201d Bellinger told the Law &#038; Crime network on Monday, admitting \u201cit was tough\u201d to sit through the many hours of testimony. <\/p>\n<p>Bellinger has also observed that the sleeping jurors were in both the front and back rows, and they particularly struggled during the video depositions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were a lot of video depositions, and they would just sit there &#8211; and all of a sudden I&#8217;d see their head drop,&#8221; she added, detailing the hours of pretaped segments that augmented the already lengthy in-person testimonies on the stand.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>The stenographer also noted that the most attentive juror was an alternate who was not even involved in the final verdict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, the one alternate that was on there &#8211; she was probably the one that listened the most,\u201d Bellinger said.  \u201cI watched her di lei facial expressions di lei.  She was very deeply into every word that was being said.  I thought she would&#8217;ve made a great juror, and she did not get to see it to the end.  She was paying close attention. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The Post has reached out to representatives for Depp and Heard for comment. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bellinger&#8217;s presence in court also sparked a bizarre viral conspiracy theory that she was &#8220;hired by&#8221; and &#8220;partying&#8221; with Depp, which was<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Angenette5\/status\/1532497554889494537\" target=\"_blank\"> previously debunked<\/a> by Emmy-nominated Law &#038; Crime correspondent Angenette Levy. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE: people are posting that court stenographer Judy from the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JohnnyDepp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#JohnnyDepp<\/a> v. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AmberHeard?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#AmberHeard<\/a> trial was \u201cpartying\u201d with JD.  It&#8217;s NOT true.  First, Judy is not a court employee.  She was hired by the Depp and Heard teams.  2nd, she was not partying with him https:\/\/t.co\/1i05fXXJS1<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Angenette Levy (@ Angenette5) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Angenette5\/status\/1532497554889494537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">June 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Depp v.  Heard trial ended last week, and the seven-person jury, consisting of five men and two women, sided mostly with Depp, 58, in their verdict.  They awarded him more than $ 10 million in damages, finding that Heard, 36, defamed him in her 2018 Washington Post op-ed about domestic abuse.  Heard was awarded $ 2 million in her countersuit di lei, and she plans to appeal the verdict.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Actor Amber Heard speaks to her legal team in the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, May 27. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo \/ Steve Helber, Pool<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Depp-Heard-Lawsuit-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Actor Johnny Depp arrives in the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Fairfax, Va., Wednesday May 4, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-22558573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Depp-Heard-Lawsuit-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Depp-Heard-Lawsuit-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Depp-Heard-Lawsuit-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Actor Johnny Depp arrives in the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Fairfax, Virginia, May 4.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Elizabeth Frantz \/ Pool Photo via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Depp, who was not there in person to hear the verdict read aloud, said in a statement: &#8220;The jury gave me my life back.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Heard said the verdict &#8220;sets back the clock to a time when a woman who spoke up and spoke out could be publicly shamed and humiliated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the masses were rapt as Johnny Depp and Amber Heard hashed it out on livestreams &#8211; the people in the courtroom were struggling to stay awake. Judy Bellinger, the court stenographer for the Depp v. Heard defamation trial, has dropped some bombshell revelations about the contentious six-week courtroom marathon. \u201cThere were a few jurors &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/depp-v-heard-stenographer-says-jurors-were-dozing-off\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Depp v.  Heard stenographer says jurors were &#8216;dozing off&#8217;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[10],"tags":[138,3150,14,137,1965],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/amber-johnny-82.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}