Insiders reveal new evidence for Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial

nypost.com:

lost his libel trial against the Sun last summer, having sued the London paper for calling him a “wife beater” in a 2018 article.

He said the charge was a lie and accused his “sociopathic” ex-wife of all the violence in their marriage. (During the London trial, Heard claimed that Depp was always the aggressor and any response from her was to defend herself.)“Johnny’s team had a certain strategy in going to the UK to sue the Sun,” a source close to Heard’s team told The Post. “The burden was on the Sun to prove there was abuse, not Johnny. [His lawyers] thought they’d get a reasoned judgment in their favor and bring that back to the US to use in this trial.

Instead they lost. So they are starting this case with a significant deficit and a much higher burden to meet.”At stake this time is Depp’s contention that Heard defamed him in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed implying he was a domestic abuser.

The headline of Heard’s piece read: “I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change.”Heard’s essay did not mention Depp by name but he said the implication was clear that it was him.