Legal experts tell NBCNews that Amber Heard did not entirely win over the jury because the panel likely determined that she lacks credibility.
in an opinion piece, adding that there “was a lot of evidence in this case” to prove why. “In other words, no one should have won; everyone should have lost.”Depp’s victory was especially surprising, considering he lost a libel case in the United Kingdom two years ago.
“For a jury to ever find actual malice and defamation in a case like this, it really has to be they didn’t find Amber Heard credible and they stopped listening to her case,” Mojdehiazad said. Factors like Heard’s and Depp’s body language and the length of the trial itself could also have played roles in the outcome, Mojdehiazad said.
Curry, who spent 12 hours with Heard, diagnosed her with borderline personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder. She argued that Dawn Hughes, a clinical psychologist whom Heard’s legal team had called to the stand, didn’t administer the proper testing to arrive at her diagnosis that Heard had post-traumatic stress disorder.
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