Amber Heard’s law firm was interrupted by an apparent Amber Inform as he designed closing arguments during the blockbuster defamation demo between the actress and her ex-spouse, Johnny Depp.
Legal professional Ben Rottenborn was summing up his client’s situation Friday early morning when quite a few cellphones began sounding the notify, leading to a commotion in the courtroom.
As the loud siren seems blared from telephones, Listened to turned to look back again across the gallery with a puzzled seem on her facial area.
“There appears to be an Amber Inform,” Choose Penney Azcarate explained to the court docket. “People are getting it on their telephones that have not silenced them.”
It was later determined that the sound was not an Amber Alert — which is supposed to notify people of a lacking or kidnapped baby — but fairly a storm warning for the encompassing space of Fairfax, Virginia.
No matter, numerous on social media had been amused by the clear Amber Notify, with some Depp lovers cracking jokes.
“How did the total courtroom not crack up? That was also perfect,” 1 pundit posted on Twitter.
“The actuality an ‘AMBER Alert’ held going off, interrupting all through Rottenborn closing statement is in some way poetic justice. The very best director in Hollywood cannot generate this s–t,” a further chimed in.
“#AMBERALERT on Amber Heard’s closing testimony. I are unable to quit laughing. Jury, if you’re wanting for a indicator, there it is,” a third man or woman tweeted.
It was the hottest viral moment in the captivating courtroom circumstance, substantially of which has performed out on social media, where pundits have been sharing TikToks, tweets and memes mocking equally Depp and Heard.
In his closing arguments, Rottenborn vigorously defended Listened to, expressing she experienced been truthful about the abuse she claimed she had experienced at Depp’s fingers.
Rottenborn referenced vulgar texts purportedly penned by Depp, just one of which browse: “Hopefully that c–t’s rotting corpse is decomposing in the f–king trunk of a Honda Civic.”
In one more, he allegedly fantasized about having intercourse with Heard’s “burnt corpse” to make positive she was dead.
“Ladies and gentlemen, these phrases are a window into the heart and mind of America’s preferred pirate,” the lawyer declared.
He extra: “If Amber was abused by Mr. Depp even one particular time, then she wins. And we’re not just chatting about actual physical abuse,” he mentioned. It also bundled “emotional abuse, psychological abuse, financial abuse, sexual abuse.”
In the meantime, Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez slammed Read in her personal closing arguments, telling jurors that the actress put on a “performance” through the six-week trial.
Vasquez statements the jury noticed Listened to “sobbing without having tears while spinning elaborate, exaggerated, fantastical” statements of domestic abuse.
The attorney argued that the evidence offered by Heard’s legal workforce “does not bear out” that the actress experienced been abused “countless periods,” together with the fact that there are no medical data documenting her supposed accidents.
“There is nothing at all,” Vasquez mentioned.
Depp is suing Read for defamation over a 2018 Washington Write-up op-ed that the “Aquaman” star wrote, in which she explained she was a sufferer of sexual violence. She did not especially title Depp in the report, but it was created right after Listened to submitted for a restraining order against her ex-partner in 2016 above abuse allegations.
Depp is trying to get $50 million in damages. Heard has filed a $100 million countersuit.
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