Johnny Depp and Amber Heard back in court? The controversial trial could be repeated

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard may have to meet again in front of the judge, resuming a process that has put in the international spotlight the toxic relationship between the two actors.

The verdict in favor of Depp, for which his ex-wife has to pay him about 10 million euros, has not meant the end of this bitter confrontation since the lack of money of the protagonist of Aquaman has led her to appeal the sentence.

Needless to say, this has been one of the most mediatic, contentious, and controversial trials in recent years, but it seems that the trial will never end. In the motion filed by Heard's lawyers, they point out two options: that the sentence be annulled or that the trial be repeated. This would really bring the two back together and replicate the complicated process that made hundreds of headlines and speculation around the world.

Amber Heard asks for Johnny Depp defamation verdict to be tossed https://t.co/wn6dfdW1HF pic.twitter.com/YDR7Ejla43

— New York Post (@nypost) July 3, 2022

More than a month after learning of the verdict in the defamation trial that pitted the former couple against each other, the actress has asked a Virginia state judge to overturn it on the grounds that the evidence does not hold up, as her legal team had announced they would do. According to Heard's legal team, Depp failed to prove that the actor's career and reputation were affected by the young actress' opinion piece, published in 2018 by The Washington Post.

In a 43-page motion, Heard asks to dismiss the earlier trial on the grounds that the legal finding would not have been supported by such evidence. In their task of reviewing any non-rigorous elements in the trial, her team of lawyers also found another issue to examine: one of the jurors lied or misplaced her date of birth, so the verdict would not be valid. 

The document Heard has filed states claims that Depp "proceeded solely on a theory of defamation by implication, abandoning any claim that Ms. Heard's statements were in fact false," according to The New York Post.

This motion by Amber Heard is typical narcissistic sociopath behavior, blame everyone else in a pathetic last-ditch motion, to make your victim, Johnny Depp oppose this motion, by July 15th. She should be denied & quite frankly sanctioned for this repeated abuse of the court. https://t.co/txZJLujYiS

— The Right Side of the Roaring Rapids (@roaringrapids22) July 3, 2022

 It is still a mystery how Depp will react to this news. Despite his attempts to turn the page and resume his professional activity, his life is still marked by the trial's results, either by the intense persecution to which he is subjected by fans or by the monetary claims he is subjected to.

Johnny Depp will have to pay 38 thousand dollars for the evidence he used in the trial against Amber Heard