Amber Heard tries to overturn the verdict: Did the actress's legal team find a flaw in the jury?
The legal team of Amber Herd filed papers this week asking the court to overturn the decision that the actress must pay the Johnny Depp $15 million in defamation damages.
Their arguments for overturning the verdict are threefold: They believe that Johnny Depp's team did not provide enough evidence to prove that her Washington Post article cost him his movie roles. They also stressed that she never named Depp in the text, and they were most concerned that one of the jurors was not who they thought he would be.
DEPP JURY THREAD: As requested, here are some general observations of the #DeppvsHeard jury during the trial..
Overall, the jury has been impressively stoic, maintaining poker faces most of the time. Many jot notes, some more than others
Here is how they sit in the jury box⬇️ pic.twitter.com/AXrVAXCdU5
— Chanley Shá Painter (@ChanleyCourtTV) May 26, 2022
According to TMZ, the legal team claims that Juror #15 who was called to court and Juror #15 who appeared are not the same person.
On paper, this juror was born in 1945, but Hurd's legal team says the person who appeared in court is much younger.
EXCLUSIVE: A juror in the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard defamation trial said what the jury concluded was "they were both abusive to each other" but Heard's team failed to prove Depp's abuse was physical. https://t.co/Ax4SMZUq2J pic.twitter.com/EMiMeqh5pn
- Good Morning America (@GMA) June 16, 2022
If it is determined that the court did not exercise "due care" in vetting the jury, that could be a valid reason to overturn the verdict reached by that jury, foreign media reports.