Jury Deliberating For Third Day In Depp-Heard Libel Trial

etcanada.com:

A jury in Virginia is deliberating for a third day in the defamation claims of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. The seven-person civil jury resumed deliberations Wednesday morning after deliberating for about nine hours over two days.

Depp is suing his ex-wife for $50 million, accusing her of libeling him with a 2018 op-ed she wrote describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” Heard filed a $100 million counterclaim against the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star after his lawyer called her allegations a hoax.

Each accuses the other of destroying their career. READ MORE: Monica Lewinsky: No Matter Who The Jury Favours In The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard Trial, ‘We Are All Guilty’ Testimony during the six-week trial has included lurid details of their short and volatile marriage.

Heard testified that Depp physically or sexually assaulted her more than a dozen times. Depp said he never struck Heard, that she concocted the abuse allegations, and that she was the one who physically attacked him, multiple times.