Amber Heard arrives within the courtroom on the Fairfax County Circuit Courtroom in Fairfax, Virginia, on Might 3, 2022.
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Amber Heard is looking for a brand new defamation trial in opposition to her ex-husband Johnny Depp — claiming the bombshell court docket battle she misplaced was stacked in opposition to her.
The 36-year-old “Aquaman” actress filed her enchantment earlier this month, arguing the exclusion of remedy notes through which she reported being abused resulted in an unfair trial. The proof had been dominated out as rumour by Fairfax County, Virginia Decide Penney Azcarate.
“The trial court docket improperly prevented the jury from contemplating a number of separate situations through which Heard reported Depp’s abuse to a medical skilled,” Heard’s attorneys wrote within the 68-page doc dated Nov. 23.
“If not reversed, the trial court docket’s exclusion of contemporaneous studies of home abuse to medical professionals will make it tougher for different abuse victims to show allegations of abuse, and certain deter them from coming ahead,” they wrote.
Depp, 59, was awarded a $10.35 million verdict in June after arguing that Heard’s Washington Put up op-ed through which she made claims of home abuse was defamatory.
Attorneys for Heard additionally argued the trial ought to have taken place in California, the place the couple as soon as lived collectively — and never in Virginia, the place the Washington Put up homes its servers.
Virginia was an “solely inconvenient discussion board with no connection to Depp or any significant connection to his claims,” the submitting states.
The case “ought to by no means have gone to trial as a result of one other court docket had already concluded that Depp abused Heard on a number of events,” her attorneys added, referencing the 2020 UK ruling in favor of Britain’s The Solar, which Depp had sued for calling him a wife-beater.
The “Pirates of the Caribbean” star has already filed his personal enchantment within the case, claiming the one depend of defamation that Heard received on the trial was “misguided.”
“The jury’s emphatic favorable verdict on all three defamatory statements alleged in his grievance absolutely vindicated Mr. Depp and restored his status,” the submitting mentioned.
A gaggle of judges will problem a ruling on each claims, and every celebration will then have an opportunity to enchantment as soon as extra.
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