Judge rejects Amber Heard bid for new trial

Thursday, 14 July 2022newsdesk

“Aquaman” actor Amber Heard lost a bid for a new trial in her defamation case with ex-husband Johnny Depp on Wednesday when a judge rejected her lawyers’ argument that one of the jurors had served improperly.

New Delhi, 14 July 2022

As per news report of The Indian Express, in June, Heard was ordered to pay Depp $10.35 million in damages when a jury in Fairfax County, Virginia, ruled she had defamed the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star in a newspaper opinion piece. Her attorneys had asked the judge in the case to throw out the decision and declare a mistrial, arguing that one of the jurors on the case should not have been eligible to serve because his summons was intended for his father, who had the same name and lived at the same address.

Source -The Indian Express