Amber Heard is looking for a brand new defamation trial in opposition to her ex-husband Johnny Depp – claiming the bombshell court docket battle she misplaced was stacked in opposition to her.
The 36-year-old Aquaman actress filed the newest court docket paperwork within the prolonged appeals course of from the five-week trial again in May, through which she’s looking for a reversal of the decision or a wholly new trial.
She argued the exclusion of remedy notes through which she reported being abused resulted in an unfair trial. The proof had been dominated out as rumour by Fairfax County, Virginia Judge Penney Azcarate.
“The trial court improperly prevented the jury from considering several separate instances in which Heard reported Depp’s abuse to a medical professional,” Heard’s legal professionals wrote within the 68-page doc dated November 23, the New York Post studies.
“If not reversed, the trial court’s exclusion of contemporaneous reports of domestic abuse to medical professionals will make it more difficult for other abuse victims to prove allegations of abuse, and likely deter them from coming forward,” they wrote.
Depp, 59, who was suing Heard for $US50 million ($A73 million), was awarded $US10.35 million ($A15 million) within the June 1 verdict after arguing that Heard’s Washington Post op-ed through which she made claims of home abuse was defamatory. It was a powerful win in Depp’s favour, nevertheless, Heard was awarded $US2 million ($A2.9 million) on one rely of her countersue case in opposition to Depp.
Lawyers for Heard additionally argued the trial ought to have taken place in California, the place the couple as soon as lived collectively – and never in Virginia, the place the The Washington Post homes its servers.
Virginia was an “entirely inconvenient forum with no connection to Depp or any meaningful connection to his claims,” the submitting states.
The case “should never have gone to trial because another court had already concluded that Depp abused Heard on multiple occasions,” her legal professionals added, referencing the 2020 UK ruling in favour of Britain’s The Sun, which Depp had sued for calling him a wife-beater.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star has already filed his personal enchantment within the case, claiming the one rely of defamation that Heard gained on the trial was “erroneous”.
“The jury’s emphatic favorable (sic) verdict on all three defamatory statements alleged in his complaint fully vindicated Mr Depp and restored his reputation,” the submitting mentioned.
A bunch of judges will subject a ruling on each claims, and every celebration will then have an opportunity to enchantment as soon as extra.
This article initially appeared on New York Post and was reproduced with permission
