Johnny Depp Verdict: Legal Experts Reveal 1 Reason Why Amber Heard Lost Defamation Trial

Actor Johnny Depp got the victory in his bombshell defamation case against his ex-wife actress Amber Heard.

Depp won because she failed to convince the jury that she was telling the truth. Some legal experts said Heard's credibility became questionable under-cross examination.

Former California judge Halim Dhanidina, Amber "did not make it through the trial with her credibility intact.

"The fact that she emerged from cross-examination, in essence, defeated without any remaining credibility - that was the linchpin in the case for me," he stated in a New York Post interview.

Jurors were likely convinced that the 36-year-old actress was lying about the alleged abuse she endured at the hands of the 58-year-old actor, according to Dhanidina, a criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles.

He added that the jury eventually thought that Heard was deliberately lying about her ex-husband Johnny Depp "because she had a bone to pick with him," which was a "takeaway" on the trial.

Amber Seemed Fake

According to Beverly Hills entertainment lawyer Mitra Ahouraian, the jurors saw the "Aquaman" actress' insincerity on the stand.

"The jury found her to be either inauthentic, overacting, or not deserving of empathy," Ahouraian noted. The entertainment lawyer's clients include actors, directors, and writers.

The lawyer remarked that many of Heard's emotional signals on the witness stand "didn't line up with her testimony."

"She would get very impassioned at weird times or make awkward attempts to connect with the jury by speaking to them directly," she said, adding that Heard's failure to keep her story straight at some points of the trial has "hurt her case."

Ahouraian said the actress was "caught in far too many inconsistencies" that made it challenging to determine which claim to believe and which not to believe.

"Even if there was some truth to her statements, her testimony, and her own words documented in audio recordings, hurt her more than anything in this trial," the lawyer said.

The entertainment attorney praised Depp's legal team for their "incredible job of highlighting this."

Amber Heard Considering an Appeal

For Texas civil lawyer Katherine Lizardo, the testimony of supermodel Kate Moss, Depp's ex-girlfriend, sealed "the coffin" for the Amber Heard trial. Moss testified that Depp never threw her down a set of stairs as Heard claimed, damaging Heard's "credibility," according to Lizardo.

After losing a defamation trial against her former husband Johnny Depp over charges of domestic abuse, Amber Heard is said to be considering an appeal to the Johnny Depp Verdict , as per a report from The Guardian.

In a Virginia court, jurors found Depp's favor on three counts of slander, paying him $15 million, which the judge later lowered to $10.35 million.

According to the New York Times, the victory for Mr. Depp contrasts with a legal defeat in the United Kingdom in 2020 when he sued the publishers of The Sun, a tabloid newspaper. A headline in The Sun branded him a "wife-beater," and the case ended with a judge, Andrew Nicol, stating that there was proof he assaulted Ms. Heard.