Amber Heard Is Appealing Against The June Verdict. She Considers The Jury's Reasoning Insufficient And The Damages Too High.

Amber Heard is pursuing an appeal against the June verdict in the significant defamation lawsuit between her and her ex-husband Johnny Depp. 

In the submission on Friday, the actress's legal team claimed that the verdict has a few issues including insufficient legal reasoning, inadequately screened jury and inadequately high damages, informs the Independent.

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Legal attorney Elaine Bredehoft states in the documents that the case relies on a faulty logic. She claims that Johnny Depp's statements "are merely based on theory of defamation but do not include evidence about the untrue nature of Amber Heard's statements."

Bredehoft also claims that the legal team said that they will only focus on the period of time after the publishing of the article, but they also talked about earlier events and statements from 2016. 

In the appeal, she requests a new trial, new verdict or a full denial of Johnny Depp's accusation. 

According to Amber Heard, there were problems with the trustworthiness of the jury during the trial. In her submission, she pinpoints juror number 15 who, according to her, had a different date of birth in the record than in publicly accessible documents. She claims this brings out the issue of thoroughness of the process. 

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Ben Chew, who leads Johnny Depp's legal team, said for Courthouse News that the appeal was "just as we expected it to be, only longer, not more pertinent."

Last month, the seven person jury has decided in favour of Depp when they concluded that his ex-wife defamed him in a 2018 article in The Washington Post where she suggested that he abused her. The court ordered her to pay 15 million dollars in damages and retribution. A few days later, the actress stated that she does not blame the jury and that she still loves her ex-husband.