Amber Heard Appeals For New Trial In Defamation Case After Losing To Johnny Depp

Earlier this 12 months, Johnny Depp gained his defamation case towards Amber Heard.

Amber Heard is looking for a brand new defamation trial towards her ex-husband Johnny Depp, claiming that the Virginia court docket battle she misplaced was held within the fallacious state. 

Earlier this 12 months, Mr Depp gained his defamation case towards Ms Heard, with a jury awarding him $15 million in damages. The jury additionally awarded the ‘Aquaman’ star $2 million for one a part of her personal counterclaim. 

Nonetheless now, practically 5 months after the decision was introduced, Ms Heard’s staff filed for a brand new enchantment towards Mr Depp in a Virginia appeals court docket, the New York Occasions reported. As per the outlet, Ms Heard’s legal professionals submitted a number of claims arguing that the trial was held within the fallacious state. Additionally they objected to the decide’s determination to exclude sure items of proof, together with remedy notes by which she reported being abused. 

“As an alternative of suing Heard in California, the place each events lived and the place Depp claimed to have suffered reputational hurt, Depp sued in Virginia, a completely inconvenient discussion board with no connection to Depp or any significant connection to his claims. The trial court docket erroneously refused to dismiss this motion on the bottom of discussion board non-conveniens, based mostly on its mistaken conclusion that Depp’s claims arose in Virginia as a result of the Washington Submit’s servers are situated right here,” Ms Heard’s lawyer wrote within the 68-page doc. 

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“The trial court docket improperly prevented the jury from contemplating a number of separate situations by which Heard reported Depp’s abuse to a medical skilled,” they added. 

Within the doc, Ms Heard’s staff requested for the jury’s verdict to be reversed, both with a dismissal of Mr Depp’s claims or a brand new trial solely. They even acknowledged that the case ought to by no means have gone to trial as a result of one other court docket had already concluded that Mr Depp abused Ms Heard on a number of events – a reference to the 2020 UK ruling in favour of Britain’s The Solar, which Mr Depp had sued for calling him a wife-beater. 

In the meantime, Johnny Depp has already filed his personal enchantment within the case, claiming the one depend of defamation that Ms Heard gained on the trial was “inaccurate”. His attorneys additionally acknowledged that Mr Depp’s status had been vindicated by the jury.