D.fter losing the case against ex-husband Johnny Depp and being ordered to pay him $ 10.35 million in compensation, Amber Heard has returned to the attack. And she filed in the Virginia courthouse a petition to set aside the sentence which “was not supported by sufficient evidence”.
Amber Heard vs Johnny Depp
The couple in 2015 (Photo by Todd Williamson / Getty Images)
The actress’s lawyers filed a 43-page memo. In which the star of Aquaman36, takes a strong stand against Depp, 59. Who couldn’t realistically claim that he had lost his part in the film series. Pirates of the Caribbean because of his ex-wife. Just because she, in an editorial appeared on the Washington Posthad wrote that he was abused but without mentioning the name of the person responsible. According to the plaintiff’s lawyers, therefore, Depp filed a libel suit “solely for theoretical implications.”
The annulment of the sentence: the reasons
In her petition the actress further argues that the identity of one of the jury members who sentenced her had not been properly verified: on paper the juror must have been born in 1945, but in reality he would have been much younger. “Juror number 15 was clearly born after 1945. Publicly available information shows that he appears to have been born in 1970,” says Amber Heard’s legal file.
The response of the actor’s lawyer
Arguments, those presented in the application, which Johnny Depp’s main lawyer, Ben Chew, has already dismissed as simply “what we expected, nothing more. They simply wrote it in a more verbose way ». Last month Amber Heard called the sentence handed down against her “a setback” for women’s rights because it will mean that victims of abuse “will be silent from now on.”
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