Here is specifically what the jury is concerned about: 
There is confusion about whether or not the title is a statement in question or the Op-Ed. The title is what in question, and Judge Azcarate clarified.
This is be a big deal. It could be that the jury only finds that the title statement (which is Johnny’s strongest argument) is only defamatory, and not the other two.
This is also the first finding instruction for the plaintiff. Which means that the jury is most likely getting ready to decide on which statements are defamatory, and soon to be verdict. Or at least voting on it.
The entire jury instruction is actually very confusing with the language being used. I don’t know if I should make another specific post as to why, but to boil it down, linguistic speaking, it depends on how the jury determines “and” v. “or”, and “any” v. “all”, also switching between taking things as a “whole” and then separating to specific statements.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s another television court session.
A minor detail that always driving me fuckin’ nuts is how “Johnny wanted the trial televised”. No the fuck he didn’t, the court did. There’s an entire order on it:
It says it, right there, in plain fuckin’ English.
“THIS MATTER came before the Court on 2/25/2022, on its ownMotion…”
He didn’t ask for it, he only agreed to it. Amber did not want the trial to be televised. Geez, I wonder why? Maybe to show all your bullshit, perhaps?
Well, my suspicions were correct. It’s not just AH’s Dad who has mistreated animals. AH herself did in her youth.
(tw: descriptions of animal abuse/animal death)
According to a former school friend of both AH and Whitney, she once poured habanero hot sauce in her dog’s mouth and poured all the water out of the dog bowl so she could watch him dehydrate and howl in pain. This friend also recounted an incident where AH beat Whitney’s beloved pet hamster to death on the sidewalk.
Those most likely to abuse their partners start this pattern of behaviour with animals.
It’s quite clear to me that she never cared for Johnny’s dogs at all. They were just a pawn in her sick game. Why else would she have sent them to live with her father, a man convicted of animal abuse?
I hope she gets the punishment she deserves for being an absolute abhorrent human being.
Hold on, wait a damn minute. She did what?
I swear, the more I learn, the more I wish I hadn’t.
Super random return to Tumblr after what I think must be years! But having fallen down the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard rabbit hole, I’m seeing some Amber apologists on here posting the ultra gaslighting bits of Rottenborn’s closing without allowing comments, so I just felt compelled to come on and make my own comment to say:
“If you didn’t take pictures, it didn’t happen. If you did take pictures, they’re fake. If you didn’t tell your friends, you weren’t injured. If you did tell your friends, they were part of the hoax.“
That is Not. TF. what we (or Camille) are saying. And it was unbelievably insulting and gross for him to frame it that way.
The reason what Amber’s done makes me so angry is because I DON’T assume anyone would lie about having suffered abuse, ever. I have argued vehemently against misogynists who DO treat women who come forward as lying until proven otherwise. So no, sir, I do not appreciate being lectured about how I’m harming women when it took the absolute mountain of evidence of her NOT being truthful to pull me away from that default. I don’t appreciate being gaslit for being upset that someone would take advantage of that default that the 99% of survivors who would never dream of lying about the abuse they’ve suffered fought, and continue to fight, so hard for.
This is not about “if it happened you should have pictures.” This is about there being a mountain of photos, videos, and recordings proving that the incredibly severe, specific allegations she sat there recounting in gruesome detail under oath never happened.
This is about her sitting there swearing up and down under oath that the video we all saw with our own two eyes of her completely uninjured, was her with two black eyes and a busted lip after having been brutally beaten in the face by a man who wears the equivalent of brass knuckles in rings. Not “the abuse wasn’t the type you would see in this video” - but specifically “yes, I had severe facial injuries in this video where my face looks flawless.” This is about her having carefully documented all manner of OTHER photos and videos exploiting Johnny’s struggles with addiction, and insisting that the harm he did to himself is somehow evidence of him having brutally, severely harmed her, while deliberately having avoided taken photos of herself after the alleged most severe attacks.
No one. is saying. that the abuse has to be severe in order for it to count. No one is expecting survivors to have documented everything. SHE made the allegations so severe that they don’t match up with the reality we see. SHE made it impossible to believe she wasn’t sitting there this whole time appropriating the very real suffering others have had to go through.
So to the survivors out there (especially women, for purposes of this discussion):
I can’t control what others do, but please know that Ibelieve you, and will NEVER expect any bar of proof to do so. It took a heaping mountain of proof I could see and hear with my own eyes and ears that Amber IS lying - Amber, one single woman out of the 99% who would never dream of doing so - to make me not believe her. And her lies will never make waver in standing by you. I will always believe women, and I’ll continue to call out anyone using this trial as an excuse to do otherwise.
I just don’t believe Amber. One specific privileged cis white woman who coopted a necessary, hard-fought feminist movement as a shield for her abusive behavior.
Australian citizen comments about the crime of glassing (using glass as a weapon) something that can give you three years minimum of jail. AH severed JD’s finger in Australia and his team flew her away because if had Ben King reported it, she would have been in jail. This is way Johnny lied about his injury being done by a door.
