Different legal experts assure that “no party is going to win” in a trial that Johnny Depp has prepared to win over Amber Heard before the public.
The defamation trial facing Johnny Depp Y Amber Heard continues to cause a whole maelstrom of reactions in networks, a large part of them promoted by fiery acolytes of each of the stars, regardless of what reality seems to be showing in both cases.
The possibility of following the case live has made the atmosphere even more tense, especially during Heard’s testimony on May 4, which brought together 587,285 viewers live on YouTube thanks to the channel Law & Crime Network But, will the trial really serve to settle what happened between the interpreters?
In an interview published in Varietythe lawyer specializing in shows Mitra Ahouraian he believes that “this lawsuit was brought so that Johnny would win in the face of public opinion. He is using the courts as a platform to have his side heard. Neither side is going to win.”
Depp, the plaintiff, accuses Heard of defamation for an opinion piece published in Washington Post in 2018 in which, although the actor’s name was never mentioned, it did underline that she was a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” Taking into account the turbulent relationship that she had with Depp since 2009, which ended in the request for a restraining order in 2016, it did not take long for the name of the “abuser” to be publicly known.
“I want a verdict against both,” says the lawyer jon katz. “It seems like a pretty basic defamation lawsuit,” says the UCLA law professor, Eugene Volok. “It’s about the facts. I haven’t seen anything that could really affect the law.”
“Broad application of the doctrine of defamation by implication may chill press freedom, as it would require publishers to consider all possible defamatory implications that might flow from otherwise accurate statements,” the attorney wrote. Jennifer Nelson about the risks involved in the large exposure of celebrity plaintiffs.
Jack Browninga lawyer for a firm that represents, among others, the ‘New York Post’, doesn’t seem so concerned: “Will this case be widely applicable to media clients? It’s not obvious that it is.”
“My goal is the truth because it killed me that all those people I had met over the years thought I was a fraud,” said the interpreter who, according to his agent, had a verbal agreement with Disney that amounted to 22.5 million dollars for shooting the sixth installment of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean‘.
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