Amber Heard's lawyers have asked a judge to throw out the more than $10 million verdict against her in the defamation case filed by ex-husband Johnny Depp.
against her in the defamation case filed by ex-husband Johnny Depp, arguing that the verdict was not supported by the evidence and that one of the jurors may not have been properly vetted by the court.
Depp sued Heard for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as"a public figure representing domestic abuse." Depp's lawyers alleged he was defamed by the article even though it never mentioned him by name. In their post-trial motions, Heard's legal team argued that to find that Heard had actual malice, Depp would have had to show that at the time Heard's article was published, she did not believe she had been abused.
Heard's lawyers also ask the judge to investigate"potential improper juror service," alleging that one of the jurors who was chosen to serve on the jury was listed as being born in 1945 in documents given to the attorneys before the jury selection process, but is listed as being born in 1970 in publicly available information.
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