Amber Heard as per her lawyers have filed documents, she is asking a Virginia Judge to reconsider her guilty verdict during the turbulent defamation trial between her and her ex-husband Johnny Depp. In the 43 page documents claiming that the outcome of the case wasn’t supported by the presented evidence.
The motion stated that the Pirates of the Caribbean star “proceeded solely on a defamation by implication theory, abandoning any claims that Ms. Heard’s statements were actually false,” according to The New York Post.
The actress published an article in 2018 via The Washington Post, claiming she was a victim of domestic abuse on which Johnny sued Amber in 2022. Although she never explicitly named Johnny in the article, he claimed that the piece hurt his career significantly. Johnny then went on to win the trial, being given $10 million in compensatory damages.
However, Amber announced that she was appealing the verdict in late June of 2022. A spokesperson for Amber told The Los Angeles Times ”You don’t decline to appeal if you know you are right”.
She told Dateline on June 17, 2022, referencing more evidence. “There’s a binder worth of years of notes dating back to 2011 from the very beginning of my relationship that were taken by my doctor, who I was reporting the abuse to”.
Divorce attorney Raiford Dalton Palmer told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY that he agrees with Amber’s choice, although he recommends that she remains cautious in the situation. “Appealing now makes sense. Her chance of success on appeal is a long shot. If she pushes the appeal, any chance of settlement will likely disappear. But if Heard is playing smart, the appeal will buy time and better position her for a settlement with Depp. Any deal would include a confidentiality agreement and a non-disparagement provision with a liquidated damages clause to keep her from repeating the defamatory statements and any other negative statements about Depp. He would buy her silence by releasing part or all of the judgment in my opinion,” he said.
