The jury in Johnny Depp‘s defamation trial against Amber Heard has their work cut out for them.
They are currently in the middle of deliberations, which they began on Friday. And the fact it’s taken this long already is not just testament to the truth not being at all cut-and-dry but also to how specific the questions they’ve been asked really are. Related: Amber Says Johnny Depp Fans Threaten To Put Her ‘Baby In The Microwave’ As much as it seems like it, the jury is NOT being tasked with trying to decide if Johnny Depp committed domestic violence — not exactly anyway.
Remember, this is a defamation case. So they are being asked about three statements in Amber’s Washington Post op-ed: For each statement, they must determine whether it’s false, whether it’s about Johnny, whether Amber Heard wrote it — and whether she acted with “actual malice” by doing so.
Actual malice is not just ill will but rather a federal legal term in the United States that means Amber either knew full well the statements she was making were false or didn’t care whether what she was saying was false or not.
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