Johnny Depp-Amber Heard Trial Documents Unsealed: Marilyn Manson Texts, Salacious Photos And Other Material That The Jury Didn’t See Or Hear
deadline.comThe Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial captivated viewers with a peek into the stormy marriage of two movie stars but, believe it or not, the proceedings could have been even more sensational.
The unsealing of a trove of 6,000 pages of documents has shown how both sides bitterly fought during the discovery stage of the trial over what could be admitted and what could not.
Things were so acrimonious between the parties that there was even a long exchange between the attorneys over Covid safety precautions to be taken during Heard’s deposition.
From Heard’s point of view, Judge Penney Azcarate ended up excluding too much from the jury’s eyes and ears. After the jury awarded Depp $10.4 million in damages, her attorney Elaine Bredehoft appeared on Today and complained that the panel did not hear other evidence in the case that was allowed in Depp’s UK trial, where he lost his case against The Sun for a story that identified him as a “wife beater.” “We had an enormous amount of evidence that was suppressed in this case that was in the UK case,” Bredehoft said.
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