RICHMOND, Virginia: Actress Amber Heard's lawyers have asked a judge to throw out the $10.35-million verdict against her in the defamation case filed by fellow actor and ex-husband Johnny Depp, arguing that the verdict was not supported by the evidence and that one of the jurors may not have been properly vetted by the court.
The thrice-Oscar-nominated actor had to prove that he never assaulted Heard, that her op-ed piece defamed him and that she wrote the article with actual malice.In their post-trial motions, Heard's legal team argued that to find that she had actual malice, Depp would have had to show that at the time her article was published, she did not believe she had been abused.'Instead, the evidence overwhelmingly supported Ms. Heard believed she was the victim of abuse at the hands of Mr.