Johnny Depp Amber Heard Jurors: Jurors Questions Headline In Amber Heard’s Op Ed

During the first full day of deliberations in Johnny Depp’s $50 million defamation trial against Amber Heard, jurors asked the judge how they should weigh the title of Heard’s Washington Post op-ed.

The online version of the December 2018 essay was headlined, “I Spoke Up Against Sexual Violence And Faced Our Culture’s Wrath.” This Must Change.”

Judge Penney Azcarate stated that the jurors were debating whether the headline was defamatory or whether it should be linked to the “substance of the remark, everything in the op-ed.”

“I suppose the confusion emerged in this one because the statement in question is the title of the op-ed,” she explained. “The title is the statement.”

The headline is one of three statements on the jury verdict papers that the jury must consider while deciding whether to rule in favour of Depp.

Heard’s legal team has pointed out that Depp is not identified in the op-ed or the headline, but his legal team has maintained that the piece made it obvious to readers to who his ex-wife was referring.

During the trial, Heard alleged that Depp sexually attacked her during an altercation in March 2016, but Depp’s legal team worked hard to refute that accusation.