Troubled Hollywood actress Amber Heard is set to contest 16 points in her much-publicised appeal against actor Johnny Depp over their ongoing defamation trial.
The 16-point new appeal filed by the legal team of the actress, Amber Heard, claimed that her ex-husband misled the jury into believing she was on trial for statement prior to her domestic abuse allegations.
The documents filed before the Court of Appeals of Virginia by Amber Heard also argued that her earlier trial had a lack of ‘clear and convincing evidence’ for actual malice which is the very standard of a defamation case.
The documents filed by Amber Heard also called out the court’s alleged failure to invalidate the damages awarded to both her and Depp after ruling they both defamed each other.
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The appeal reads thus; ‘’Inherently and irreconcilably inconsistent,’ the appeal stated of the damages awarded to both.’’
In other words, the lawyers argued that Heard should have been protected by the First Amendment and that Depp had no case because he was never named in the op-ed piece.
‘’The trial court erred in denying the motion to set aside the jury’s verdict with regard to Mr. Depp’s failure to prove that the allegedly defamatory statements in the challenged op-ed each conveyed a defamatory meaning about him by implication and that any such implication was both designed and intended by Ms. Heard,’ the appeal document states.
