Amber Heard, “full compensation” was not necessary for the appeal. What was on the judge’s mind when he stated that?

Last Updated on 08/14/2022 by てんしょく飯

The bond for the appeal is the full amount of damages plus 6% interest per year. That’s what Judge Penny Azcarate told Heard’s attorney, Ilene Bredehoeft, on the day of the hearing to officially record her ruling in Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s defamation case.

All you need for an appeal in Virginia is this 0.

There were no TV cameras in the courthouse that day and no live coverage, but a reporter inside reported that, and the conversation is well documented in the court record. Even when Heard put only $500 into the courthouse for the appeal, he was told that “at some point, the required deposit would have to be deposited.

However, as an attorney named Robert Byrne explains in a YouTube video, it seems that this $500 is all that is required for an appeal in Virginia. The full amount of damages and 6% interest is only an option “if the appealing party wants it,” he said. This deposit is to avoid the losing party in a court case from having to wait for the winning side to file an appeal to collect the compensation without waiting for the appeal. The losing side deposits that money with the court, and the winning side does not get it until after the appeal is over.

In this case, Heard must pay $10.35 million to Depp and Depp must pay Heard $2 million. So Depp can demand payment from Heard right now, and if he doesn’t want to do that, Heard can deposit that amount as a deposit. Realistically, however, it is hard to imagine that Depp, who has always insisted that this lawsuit was not brought for money, would collect from Heard. Heard knows that, and she doesn’t have that much money to begin with. For Depp, he could have said that if Heard were to collect the $2 million, he would collect the $10.35 million himself, and both sides would have ignored the deposit.

But Judge Azcarate did not explain that part, only saying “the full amount of damages plus 6% interest per annum.” Perhaps that is because Judge Azcarate, who had been exposed to Bredehoeft’s unprofessional behavior for so long, was fed up with the fact that she was still making bad arguments.

Heard’s legal fees for this trial are coming out of her homeowners insurance policy. However, Bredehoeft and others did not want the jury to know that, and had requested in advance, through the court, that the Depp’s not mention the source of the attorney’s fees at all in the trial. Nevertheless, Bredehoeft personally faced the jury at trial and lied to them, saying that Heard could not make the promised donation because of the $6 million in legal fees he had to pay.

Also, the day after losing the case, Bredehoeft appeared on two television shows and bad-mouthed the jury, saying that they had been misled by social media to come up with such a verdict. Judges generally have respect for jurors because they know how hard jurors work. There is no way that Judge Azcarate would have been amused by being denied a jury without any evidence to back it up.

Depp’s lawyer had been warned about Bredehoeft’s behavior.

Judge Azcarate has also been involved with Depp and Heard’s attorneys throughout the trial preparation. Since that time, he has seen their personalities. In an email exchange in the trial preparation record documents unsealed by Judge Azcarate, Depp’s attorney, Ben Chu, complained to Bredehoeft in this way.

‘You accused my colleague of making a mistake with regard to the preparation of the documents, which in the end was your mistake. You have not apologized for that. And you did not apologize when you were reprimanded by the arbitrator for accusing another colleague of discrimination against women. When I came in as Ms. Heard’s third attorney in this trial (note: before Bredehoeft, Heard had another attorney), I received calls from respected attorneys in Fairfax (Va.) warning me about your behavior. In spite of this, I was surprised, you know. We are not swayed by bullies. I am confident that the court will understand what you are really saying.

In any case, it is one thing to say that an appeal has been filed and another to say that it has been accepted and the case will go to trial again. The Heard side will have to come up with a solid case to convince the court as to why the previous trial was wrong. How do they really intend to come out with this? All of the evidence Heard presented at the trial was very weak. The result was the verdict. The day will surely come when Heard will have to accept that fact.