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Amber Heard & Johnny Depp<\/strong><\/p>\n A Virginia judge denied seven post-trial motions Amber Heard filed in an attempt to fight the jury verdict handed down in the defamation case with her ex-husband Johnny Depp.<\/p>\n After a weeks-long trial,\u00a0a jury in June awarded $15 million in damages to Depp and only $2 million to Heard in their respective defamation lawsuits.<\/p>\n Attorneys for\u00a0Heard petitioned for a new trial, claiming that information on the jury panel list sent to counsel ahead of trial did not appear to match the demographics of one of the jurors, and so compromised Heard\u2019s rights to due process.<\/p>\n Judge Penney Azcarate said in the court order filed Wednesday that Heard\u2019s rights to due process were not affected because no fraud or wrongdoing occurred in the jury selection process.<\/p>\n \u201cThe juror was vetted, sat for the entire jury, deliberated, and reached a verdict. The only evidence before this Court is that this juror and all jurors followed their oaths, the Court\u2019s instructions, and orders. This Court is bound by the competent decision of the jury,\u201d Judge Azcarate wrote.<\/p>\n If Heard\u2019s legal team had an issue with the jury selection process, they should\u2019ve addressed it during the weeks-long trial, Azcarate added.<\/p>\n \u201cA party cannot wait until receiving an adverse verdict to object, for the first time, on an issue known since the beginning of trial,\u201d the order states.<\/p>\n Attorneys for Depp filed a response memo against Heard\u2019s post-trial motions last week ahead of the judge\u2019s decision, calling the legal arguments frivolous.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile Ms. Heard slings an exceptional amount of mud at the wall in the hope that something might stick, the jury\u2019s verdict on damages was perfectly reasonable and supported by the evidence and testimony in this case,\u201d Depp\u2019s memo stated.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u2013CNN<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Amber Heard & Johnny Depp A Virginia judge denied seven post-trial motions Amber Heard filed in an attempt to fight the jury verdict handed down in the defamation case with her ex-husband Johnny Depp. After a weeks-long trial,\u00a0a jury in June awarded $15 million in damages to Depp and only $2 million to Heard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1149954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13116,11843,9167,20516,15908,20517],"class_list":["post-1149952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-amber","tag-denied","tag-depp","tag-heards","tag-johnny","tag-motions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}