September 20, 2024

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Amber Heard to enchantment jury verdict; lawyer says verdict influenced via social media

By means of IANS

LOS ANGELES: Elaine Bredehoft, Amber Heard’s lawyer in her defamation trial towards Johnny Depp, unfolded concerning the verdict in a no-hold-barred dialog with Savannah Guthrie at the NBC community’s ‘These days’ display.

She mentioned Heard will “completely” wish to enchantment the jury’s resolution that used to be in favour of Depp. “She has some very good grounds for it,” Bredehoft added, in step with ‘Selection’.

“She used to be demonised right here,” Bredehoft added about Heard. “A variety of issues had been allowed on this courtroom that are supposed to no longer had been allowed, and it led to the jury to be at a loss for words. We were not allowed to inform them concerning the U.Okay. judgment.”

The lawyer used to be regarding the libel case Depp misplaced in the UK. The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ actor sued the preferred British red-top tabloid, ‘The Solar’, for calling him a “spouse beater” however misplaced the case.

Bredehoft additionally shared her trust that the vitriol Heard gained on social media right through the process the high-profile trial possibly impacted the jury, experiences ‘Selection’. Social media used to be in large part on Depp’s aspect, in step with the lawyer, as used to be glaring from the viral TikTok development wherein customers broadly mocked Heard’s testimonies.

When requested if social media impacted the jury, Bredehoft answered: “Completely. Jurors [weren’t supposed to be looking at social media], however how are you able to no longer [be aware]? They went house each and every evening. They’ve households. Their households are on social media. We had a 10-day destroy within the center on account of the judicial convention. There is not any method they could not had been influenced.”