Depp-Heard Trial Juror Shuts Down Claims Jury Were Influenced By Social Media: ‘We Followed The Evidence’
etcanada.comA juror in the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial spoke out anonymously for the first time since the verdict in a new interview for “Good Morning America”.
Depp won the defamation case that hit headlines around the world earlier this month. Despite Heard and her attorney Elaine Bredehoft’s claims that they think social media and fans’ support for Depp played a huge role in the result, the person in question insisted that wasn’t the case. “We followed the evidence,” said the juror, who was one of seven jurors of the six-week trial. “Myself and at least two other jurors don’t use Twitter or Facebook.
Others who had it made a point not to talk about it.” READ MORE: Amber Heard Calls Johnny Depp Trial ‘The Most Humiliating Thing I’ve Ever Been Through,’ Insists She Stands ‘By Every Word’ Of Her Testimony He also said he believes “a lot of Amber’s story didn’t add up” and “the majority of the jury felt she was more the aggressor.” The juror claimed, “The crying, the facial expressions that she had, the staring at the jury.
All of us were very uncomfortable…. She would answer one question and she would be crying and then two seconds later she would turn ice cold. “Some of us used the expression ‘crocodile tears’. “Ultimately,” the juror went on, “what I think is truthful was that they were both abusive to each other. “I don’t think that makes either of them right or wrong.
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