The American actress has asked a judge to remove her lost verdict against Johnny Depp, as she filed a strange charge against a member of the jury.
Amber Heard has asked a Virginia judge to overturn her lost verdict in the defamation lawsuit filed by ex-husband Johnny Depp, alleging that evidence is not being maintained.
Heard’s lawyers, who were found guilty of three defamation charges filed by Depp after a five-week trial that ended in early June, said in a 43-page motion filed Friday that the sentence was not supported by evidence presented during the trial of an excellent ex-partner, New York Post reports.
The document states that Depp “proceeded solely on a theory of defamation by implication, abandoning any claim that Ms. Heard’s statements were actually false,” the newspapers state.
Heard’s lawyers also asked questions about a member of the jury, known as Juror 15, who was known to have been born in 1945.
“[The juror] He was clearly born later than 1945. Publicly available information shows that he appears to have been born in 1970, ”the motion said, suggesting they believe he was a false juror.
In the motion, attorneys also stated that the jury did not have sufficient evidence to reason that Depp had lost roles in films as a direct result of Heartd’s opinion piece, in which he claimed that he was a victim of domestic and sexual violence.
Depp, 58, sued his ex-wife, 36, alleging he damaged his career in 2018. Washington Post editorial: with the jury deciding that there was little doubt that the reference was to the Pirates of the Caribbean star.
One of Depp’s lawyers, Benjamin Chew, emailed Courthouse News that Heartd’s presentation was “what we expected, just longer, more substantive.” The guardian reported.
Judge Penney Azcarate previously suggested that she is not required to schedule further hearings for the case.
Heard previously indicated that he would appeal the decision.
“Don’t apologize if you’re innocent. And don’t decline to appeal if you know you’re right, ”a Heard spokesman said in a statement in June.
This story originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission