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LOS ANGELES: Amber Heard desires the decision of the defamation trial towards her ex-husband Johnny Depp to be tossed out. The ‘Aquaman’ actress’s legal professional filed a movement soliciting for that together with the $10.35 million in damages awarded to Depp through the jury, reviews Selection.
Along with Heard’s lawyers arguing that the decision isn’t supported through proof, the 43-page report submitted to the Fairfax County Circuit Courtroom additionally calls “to analyze mistaken juror provider”, ‘Selection’ provides.
It claimed that public knowledge signifies {that a} juror who served throughout the trial used to be born in 1970, regardless of courtroom officers list the individual’s start yr as 1945.
Heard’s attorneys wrote, “This discrepancy raises the query whether or not Juror 15 in reality won a summons for jury accountability and used to be correctly vetted through the courtroom to serve at the jury.”
Selection notes that Heard’s felony workforce additionally argues that the jurors’ $10.35 million award towards the actress is “inconsistent and irreconcilable” with the jury’s conclusion that each her and Depp had defamed one every other.
Along with Depp’s $10 million in compensatory damages, plus $350,000 in punitive damages, the jury additionally awarded Heard $2 million in compensatory damages for her counterclaim.
Heard’s lawyers additional wrote within the submitting that “Mr. Depp offered no proof that Ms. Heard didn’t imagine she used to be abused. Due to this fact, Mr. Depp didn’t meet the felony necessities for precise malice, and the decision must be put aside.”
Depp’s lead legal professional, Ben Chunk, commented at the movement to toss the decision, disregarding it as “what we anticipated, simply longer, not more substantive” in a observation to ‘Courthouse Information’.