Johnny Depp Lambasts Amber Heard Over Attempt To Toss Verdict: 'Frivolous!'
Johnny Depp is not letting Amber Heard make more absurd claims after the defamation trial.
The battle between Depp and Heard is far from over as the actress cannot accept the fact that she lost in the defamation case. This time, she brought up that a wrong juror showed up for the trial.
But after staying silent, Depp - through his lawyers - filed a new document on Monday and argued that the "Aquaman" star never showed she suffered prejudice due to the potential error. They also alleged that she knew about it all along but refused to raise the issue sooner.
"Unsurprisingly, Ms. Heard cites no case law to support her argument that the service of Juror 15 if he is not the same individual that the Court assigned as Juror 15 somehow compromised her due process and would warrant the drastic remedy of 'setting aside the verdict and ordering a new trial,'" the actor's legal representatives said, per Variety.
They explained that there is no way she could not have found out the "new facts" until now since the Clerk's Office gave them the pre-panel jury list to them on April 6. With that, Heard herself reportedly waived her right to allege new facts and failed to investigate what she knows.
The actress and her representatives have not responded to it yet.
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Depp's move came after Heard's team filed court documents on July 8, in which they argued that one of the jurors did not match the list jury panel list's information that was sent before the trial began.
They said that Juror 15 was born in 1970. However, the summons was actually for someone of the same last name born in 1945. They alleged that Juror 15 and the supposed juror live in the same address - one a 77-year-old and another a 52-year-old.
The explained: "Juror No. 15 was not the individual summoned for jury duty on April 11, 2022, and therefore was not part of the jury panel and could not have properly served on the jury at this trial. Therefore, a mistrial should be declared, and a new trial ordered. As the Court no doubt agrees, it is deeply troubling for an individual not summoned for jury duty nonetheless to appear for jury duty and serve on a jury, especially in a case such as this."
Meanwhile, the attorney in Fairfax Jon Katz has since shared his thoughts about Heard's filing. He said that it could be useless as the court might rule that the trial was tainted.
Instead, it would question whether Heard could show real prejudice - resonating with what Depp's lawyers said.
