A juror from the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial spoke solely to Good Morning America in regards to the trial verdict, which dominated that Heard defamed Depp when she wrote a 2018 Washington Publish op-ed alluding to her previous claims of home violence. Heard is ordered to pay $US10.35 million (approx. $14.65 million) in damages to Depp because of this.
The juror, one among 5 males on the seven-person jury, instructed GMA that Heard’s emotional testimony in the course of the trial was not sensible. Watch above.
“The crying, the facial expressions that she had, the staring on the jury. All of us have been very uncomfortable,” the juror mentioned. “She would reply one query and she or he could be crying, and two seconds later she would flip ice chilly. A few of us used the expression ‘crocodile tears.'”
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“Plenty of the jury felt what [Depp] was saying, on the finish of the day, was extra plausible,” the juror added.
“He simply appeared a bit extra actual when it comes to how he was responding to questions. His emotional state was very steady all through.”
Heard’s staff has repeatedly claimed that social media and the entire vitriol towards Heard on platforms resembling TikTok swayed the jury in favor of Depp.
As Heard instructed NBC Information this week, “I believe even probably the most well-intentioned juror… it might have been not possible to keep away from this.”
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The juror denied such accusations about social media, saying, “We adopted the proof… myself and different jurors do not use Twitter or Fb. Others who had it, made some extent to not discuss it.”
“What I believe is truthful is that they have been each abusive to one another,” the juror concluded.
“I do not suppose that makes both of them proper or fallacious… however to rise to the extent of what she was claiming, there wasn’t sufficient or any proof that actually supported what she was saying.”
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The jury famous that one “fiasco” that damage Heard in the course of the trial was the reveal that she had not but donated her $US7 million (approx. $9.9 million) divorce settlement to charity, regardless of claiming to take action.
“She goes on a chat present within the U.Okay. and the video exhibits her sitting there, telling the host she gave all that cash away,” the juror mentioned. “The phrases she utilized in that video clip have been, ‘I gave it away, I donated it, it is gone.’ However the reality is, she did not give a lot of it away in any respect.”
Heard instructed NBC Information that she “pledged” her $US7 million settlement to charity and continues to be dedicated to donating it over time.
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