Johnny Depp verdict

The high profile celebrity defamation case comes to a close six weeks after it began.

"It's not about whether you think Ms Heard may have been abusive to Mr Depp". "This is a window into the heart and mind of America's favourite pirate," Mr Rottenborn said. "I felt the full force of our culture's wrath for women who speak out," she wrote. then Amber wins," he said. Mr Depp offered a starkly different picture, alleging that Ms Heard was a volatile spouse who abused and demeaned him. Ms Heard, 36, counter-sued for $100m.

Closing arguments ask jurors to consider what their verdict in defamation case will mean for domestic abuse victims.

“What we have is a mountain of unproved allegations that are wild, over the top, and implausible,” Vasquez said. “She came into this courtroom ready to give the performance of her lifetime … and she gave it.” Chew added that Depp was a supporter of the #MeToo movement. “Take a minute to really think about what you heard there,” Vasquez asked the jury. You either believe all of it, or none of it.” It wasn’t immediately clear when the jury may return a verdict.

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At the time of writing, jury deliberations are still ongoing in Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s trial. If Johnny wins against Amber, it means that the jury has decided that Amber defamed him in her 2018 article for the Washington Post and the actor will be awarded damages. The testimony of the witnesses and documentary evidence will be even more essential for the jury to determine who is really telling the truth and who may be merely acting out a role.” Johnny Depp is suing Amber Heard for $50 million over a 2018 op-ed published in The Washington Post, where she described herself as a victim of domestic abuse. After a few years of dating, Johnny and Amber decided to tie the knot in 2015. Long before they found themselves at the center of a media storm during their trial, Johnny and Amber were romantically involved for years.

After closing arguments, the judge asked a jury in Virginia to decide a defamation trial that focused as much on domestic abuse as damaged reputations.

In a previous trial in London, a judge found that Mr. Depp had assaulted Ms. Heard repeatedly throughout their relationship. (Before the call, Ms. Heard testified, Mr. Depp had thrown a phone at her at close range, hitting her in the face, which Mr. Depp denies.) The jury verdict in this case must be unanimous, but the panel does not have to find the evidence convincing “beyond a reasonable doubt,” as in a criminal case. Ms. Heard’s lawsuit asserted that Mr. Depp, through those statements, “launched a nationwide campaign” to discredit her. “What we have is a mountain of unproven allegations that are wild, over the top and implausible.” Ms. Heard has denied hitting Mr. Depp except in defense of herself or her sister. But the six-week trial has encompassed testimony about a vast array of alleged incidents from Mr. Depp and Ms. Heard’s marriage. Ms. Heard’s lawyers described witnesses who said she had told them about the abuse. (Ms. Heard testified that in those instances, she hit him in response to his own aggression.) She has also alleged several instances of sexual assault — including an accusation that he assaulted her with a bottle in Australia in 2015. On Friday morning, about 150 people waited in line to get into the courtroom, with hundreds more lining a nearby road, some of them dressed as Mr. Depp’s movie characters. But now, after hearing other of the actor’s romantic partners speak positively about him, she said she felt confident voicing her support.

After six weeks of testimony from Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's legal teams, both sides delivered closing arguments today, and jury deliberations began.

They also defended Heard’s right to the First Amendment of freedom of speech. With both sides having rested their case, the jury is now adjourned for deliberations. Following more than 100 hours of testimony, Judge Penney Azcarate instructed the jury on how to handle their deliberations moving forward. Depp’s team also referenced previous testimonies alleging that Heard showed symptoms of borderline personality disorder, and noting that she didn’t yet donate her full $7 million divorce settlement to the American Civil Liberties Union as promised. “This is not a Me Too situation,” Vasquez said. After six weeks of testimony from Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s legal teams, both sides delivered closing arguments today, and jury deliberations began.

The defamation trial brought by Johnny Depp against his ex-wife Amber Heard is set to head to the jury Friday.

Depp believed Heard was a "nag" for questioning the use of drugs and alcohol, Rottenborn said. "She wants you to believe she was abused countless times over the course of their relationship. "Imagine someone actually thinking that maybe the impact of alcohol and cocaine is ruining their relationship," Rottenborn said. "The lies have grown and metastasized over time," Chew said. These were the words of "America's favorite pirate," Rottenborn said. "That's what he said at the beginning of their relationship." "He expects you to believe him that he didn't have anything to drink on that plane except for maybe on thing of champagne, that's what he expect you to believe," Rottenborn said. "The witnesses Mr. Depp has paraded up here, we're here in person," Rottenborn said. "He blamed everybody in the world: his agent, his manager, his lawyer, Amber, his friends," Bredehoft said. "This was Johnny Depp's best friend of 40 years, until he testified truthfully four years about the drugs and alcohol and [Depp] stopped talking to him." "The exact opposite of this." "Mr. Depp owns his mistake...but in this trial Ms. Heard has been confronted with her lies and the damage she has caused," Vasquez said.

The jurors must simultaneously weigh whether Johnny Depp abused Amber Heard, and whether Depp defamed her by saying she orchestrated a hoax.

For Depp to win his claim against Heard, jurors need to determine that the following parts of the Washington Post op-ed were made by Heard about Depp, were false, and were made with "actual malice." So Amber and her friends spilled a little wine and roughed the place up, got their stories straight under the direction of a lawyer and publicist, and then placed a second call to 911." Heard denied the allegations and filed a counterclaim against Depp. She alleged that Depp did, in fact, physically assault him throughout their relationship, which he did while under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Furthermore, Depp alleged, it was Heard who physically and verbally abused him during their relationship — not the other way around. The article didn't mention Depp by name, but Depp's lawsuit argued that it made clear references to their relationship. The restraining order gave a blow to the reputation of a man who had starred in movie franchises worth billions of dollars.

After six weeks of testimony, the jury is set to bring a verdict on Johnny Depp versus Amber Heard's explosive defamation trial in the coming days.

At the beginning of the proceedings, the court heard the Edward Scissorhands star insist that he had never struck a woman in his life. The verdict in the Depp v Heard defamation trial is expected in the coming days after closing remarks in the multimillion-dollar lawsuit were heard from both sides. It is not known when they will return with a decision.

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Johnny Depp fans have also created petitions to see him return as Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean, with over 740,000 signatures as of this article’s publication. Based on the information presented during the six-week trial, they will have to decide whether Amber Heard’s article implies or insinuates anything about her former husband and whether they were false or written with intention of malice. The Oscar nominee, on the other hand, has claimed that Heard is lying, with his lawyer Camille Vasquez claiming in her closing argument that her testimony has too many holes to be believable.