Amber Heard notified a Virginia courtroom Thursday that she is going to attraction the US$10.35-million judgment she was ordered to pay ex-husband Johnny Depp throughout a high-profile defamation trial that uncovered the internal workings of their troubled marriage.
Heard’s legal professionals filed a discover of attraction in Fairfax County Circuit Courtroom, the place a six-week trial featured riveting testimony from each Heard and Depp. The doc notifies the Virginia Courtroom of Appeals that Heard intends to attraction the judgment, in addition to rulings the choose made after the decision, together with rejecting Heard’s request to put aside the decision and dismiss the lawsuit or order a brand new trial.
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“We consider the courtroom made errors that prevented a simply and truthful verdict according to the First Modification. We’re due to this fact interesting the decision,” a spokesperson for Heard mentioned in an announcement. “Whereas we understand as we speak’s submitting will ignite the Twitter bonfires, there are steps we have to take to make sure each equity and justice.”
The jury ordered Heard to pay Depp $10-million in compensatory damages and $5-million in punitive damages.
The punitive damages had been decreased to $350,000 beneath a state cap. The jury awarded Heard $2-million on her counterclaim.
A lot of the testimony throughout the six-week trial targeted on Heard’s claims that she had been bodily and sexually abused by Depp a minimum of a dozen instances. Depp insisted that he by no means hit Heard and that she was the abuser.
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“The jury listened to the in depth proof introduced throughout the six-week trial and got here to a transparent and unanimous verdict that the defendant herself defamed Mr. Depp in a number of cases,” a spokesperson for Depp mentioned in an announcement.
We stay assured in our case and that this verdict will stand.”
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