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Johnny Depp v Amber Heard's defamation trial is underway [UPDATE: Verdict reached. Johnny Depp won.]
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Assuming the jurors are normal ppl like us, then a logical conclusion would be yes.
Jurors in America let cops free without consequences for murdering Black folks.
If given the opportunity many jurors would overturn the election and give it to Donald Trump.
I will never assume another American is "like me" anymore.
Most believable moment in all of this testimony this far. It was genuine feeling she recalled from that memory. She had been angry.
If you're going to take a lie with you to the grave, at least be able to convincingly act.
lol smh
lol smh
She's gonna have testimony from her friends and who knows who else corroborating all of this, presumably some of whom will say that saw or heard things. All of it depends on who and what the jury believes. The fact that she's much more outwardly emotional than Depp clearly doesn't work for everyone but may work for some members of the jury, which is all that matters as far at winning the case.
Many people think that marriage or kids will change an abusive partner. It rarely works that way and instead just allows the abuser more control over the abused. It is tragic.
Thing is, if she is lying about even 1 thing she has described, it's beyond the pale. This is cartoon villain level of crazy she is describing, so if she is being dishonest about 1 iota of it she's doing a massive disservice to women everywhere.
They're probably laughing at the notion that she's put forward that he's constantly shitting himself in front of everyone which is part of her absurd stereotype of describing what someone who drinks and does drugs is like.
Lesbian camp counselor. You heard right. She's referring to a name Depp called her- not sure the whole context on that one.
I think the biggest issue I'm having with this testimony is that the framing goes so against what we know.
Heard is describing these events as her being this young, hopelessly-in-love partner to this enraged violent drunk who also happened to be one of the biggest stars in the world. She doesn't go into her anger issues or violent outbursts at all. And, in most cases, I would completely understand her lawyers wanting to skirt around all that. But the big problem with that is...
We have audio.
We've heard the tapes. We know Heard was prone to angry outbursts. We know Heard instigated a lot of the fights. We know Heard was physically violent on many occasions, and that Johnny's response to those occasions was to leave. This isn't speculation: it's on tape.
So to not have Heard talk about this in her opening testimony feels like an odd choice. Because Depp's lawyers are definitely going to talk about it (including replaying the tapes).
Such a glaring omission can make your entire testimony feel dishonest.
Heard is describing these events as her being this young, hopelessly-in-love partner to this enraged violent drunk who also happened to be one of the biggest stars in the world. She doesn't go into her anger issues or violent outbursts at all. And, in most cases, I would completely understand her lawyers wanting to skirt around all that. But the big problem with that is...
We have audio.
We've heard the tapes. We know Heard was prone to angry outbursts. We know Heard instigated a lot of the fights. We know Heard was physically violent on many occasions, and that Johnny's response to those occasions was to leave. This isn't speculation: it's on tape.
So to not have Heard talk about this in her opening testimony feels like an odd choice. Because Depp's lawyers are definitely going to talk about it (including replaying the tapes).
Such a glaring omission can make your entire testimony feel dishonest.
You knew it was coming when she earlier said "I didn't know MDM made anyone aggressive"
This is all just so fake and over the top. I'm honestly surprised no juror has burst out laughing yet.
From what I understand, her friends will not be there in person, just video deposition. Seems some of them have been distancing themselves from her.
So this story has no emotion from her but the dog story had her on the brink of tears....sure.
Yeah that's what's going through my mind too. She's being allowed to very openly speak about her experiences but how she's describing things and her own actions in particular just doesn't align with the facts at all. As you say there's stone cold evidence of her real demeanour and behaviour, as well as Johnny's, but all these long-winded and very very detailed stories don't align with any of it.
Also, if it's video, JD's team will already have interviewed them.
This is all gonna come up on cross-examination. They're going to replay those tapes back to her, including the couple of seemingly damning ones where she goes after Depp who locked himself in a bathroom and mocked him for "always running away at the start of the argument" (that one has always been especially bad for me), the one where she admits to hitting him, and the one where she mocks him for being a male celebrity and as such would never be believed.
That's a real trifecta right there. But we can probably guess that she will argue that it was all retaliatory abuse, that she did in fact abuse him (which seems impossible to argue against) but that he instigated it and pushed her to it with his own more serious abuse.
That's interesting but it can work both ways, since Depp's team won't be able to give a current cross after having listened to everything up till now.
There's really nothing unusual about that. Some of you are going too far with this stuff.
Dumb question, but since she invoked Johnny's children in her testimony, could they be called to testify?
I doubt Johnny would want that for his children. He might opt to protect them over getting their testimony.
It would be wild if Team Amber called them.
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Amber can't really introduce any new info that wasn't in her own pre-trial deposition.
Speaking of the dog, look who posted a video on their Instagram of her holding their dog out the car of a moving vehicle.
Maybe I misunderstood her accusation against Johhny, but I assumed she meant Johnny literally held the dog out the window whereas in that clip the dog just has its head slightly poking out the window.
Given the fact that there's been multiple people testifying that they saw her drinking wine to excess on a regular basis, but not accused constantly drunk Johnny Depp, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that she projects like a motherfucker. But in this instance, bit of a stretch. That's just a normal thing dogs do.
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