Another day, another Johnny Deep and Amber Heard’s drama, as the Aquaman actress just suffered a major loss in her fight for a new trial.
Amber’s legal team had initially filed legal documents claiming that one of the jurors committed fraud.
According to her legal team, Juror number fifteen was not the person summoned by the court.
Amber Heard’s Claim Of Jury Fraud Gets Shut Down
They argued that the juror actually took the summons from his father, who shared the same name, and he got himself fraudulently empaneled, as both father and son live together.
Amber Heard legal team said it was
“deeply troubling for an individual not summoned for jury duty nonetheless to appear for jury duty and serve on a jury, especially in a case such as this.”
However, just yesterday, Judge Penney Azcarate, the Virginia court judge that presided over the couple’s court battle, shut down Heard’s demand for an investigation into Juror 15.
She ruled that there was no fraud because the summons did not include a birth date, suggesting either the father or son could have shown up for jury service.
The judge added that Amber’s motion was sour grapes and she could have made it much earlier, but the only reason she’s doing it now is that she lost the case.
All of this is coming after Johnny Deep had fired back at his ex-wife’s desperate attempt for a retrial, stating that it should not be allowed.
According to Depp’s lawyers, Heard team’s complaints about the juror’s identity are irrelevant and would have caused no prejudice to the actress.
The Pirates of the Caribbean actor’s attorneys said,
“Ms. Heard’s desperate, after-the-fact demand for an investigation of Juror 15 based on a purported error in his birth date is misplaced. Moreover, Ms. Heard’s argument is based on pure speculation.”
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