Amber Heard is seeking a new defamation trial against her ex-husband Johnny Depp, alleging that the legal battle she lost a few months ago was orchestrated to “destroy” her.
The ‘actress Aquaman’, 23 years old, filed an appeal earlier this month, arguing that the exclusion of therapeutic notes in which reported being abused, resulted in an unfair trial. The evidence had been dismissed as hearsay by Fairfax County, Virginia Judge Penney Azcarate.
“The trial court improperly prevented the jury from considering several separate cases in which Heard alleged the Depp’s abuse of a medical professional,” Heard’s new lawyers wrote in a 68 page document, dated 23 of November, broadcast by media such as Deadline.
“If not reversed, the trial court’s exclusion of contemporaneous reports of domestic abuse to medical professionals will make it more difficult for other victims of abuse prove the allegations of abuse and it will likely discourage them from coming forward,” the lawyers added.
The star of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean ‘ has already filed its own appeal in the case, alleging that the only libel charge Heard won at trial was “erroneous.”
“The jury’s emphatic favorable verdict on the three alleged defamatory in his denou The ncia fully vindicated Mr. Depp and restored his reputation,” the actor’s document says.
According to the Daily Mail, a group of judges will issue a ruling on both claims, and each party will have the opportunity to appeal one more time.
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