Amber Heard is going to appeal the verdict from Johnny Depp’s defamation case against her. “Absolutely,” Heard’s attorney, Elaine Charlson Bredehoft, told 's Savannah Guthrie on Thursday when asked if her client plans to appeal Wednesday’s verdict. “And she has some excellent grounds for it.
We even had tried to get the U.K. judgement in to dismiss his case because he already had his shot and that’s one of the issues.
But also, a number of evidentiary issues. There was so much evidence that did not come in.” After 14 hours of deliberations — that spanned over three days -- a jury unanimously found that Depp was defamed by Heard and that she «acted with actual malice.” The jury awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages.
Depp's punitive damages, however, were reduced by Judge Penny Azcarate to $350,000 in accordance with the state's statutory cap.
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