Welcome back to Good Day Stateline.
One of our favorite GDS dads is back with us tonight.
Perfect for Father's Day week. Thanks for coming in.
Absolutely. Always love coming here, Mahoney.
Of course.
So we're going to talk a little bit
about what happened with Johnny Depp and Amber Heard,
because last time you were here, we were almost at the end.
Yep. Yep. Very long trial.
It was a six week trial.
That's a very long trial.
I mean, most trials are two, three, four or five days.
Six weeks is a is a tremendously long trial.
So and last time we were right at the end
and we we predicted we thought Johnny was going to win.
We were correct. Well, you were correct.
I just sat here. Well, stood here. It's your show.
You were correct.
So one of the things that you were asking about
was Johnny won and Amber won. Yes.
OK, so the initial lawsuit filed by Johnny
Amber countersued for defamation also.
And Johnny won the majority of his counts against them.
When you file a lawsuit, you'll have a lot of times
different counts, different ways that you could be victorious.
OK, so it could be one theory, two theory, three theories.
So he won and most of his she countersued on defamation,
also based upon some conduct by one of his lawyers who said
and because it's an employee of his
and he's responsible for the acts of his employee,
he acting within
the scope of their authority, that's a rule
in the United States.
The lawyer said that that this had been a hoax
on her part and her and her friends
had roughed her up in order to look a certain way.
OK, well, the jury believed that that, in fact, didn't happen
and that that was defamation.
So they awarded her $2 million
in addition to his $15 million verdict against her.
It's not all that uncommon. It's pretty common.
You have countersuits, OK?
It's pretty common that if one person sues,
the other person
sues back for something else
and they take place at the same time
and they would absolutely that matter.
That has to kind of happen that way most of the time.
If they arise out of the same conduct,
then they're going to take place at the same time.
That's judicial economy and just kind of makes sense.
So he he won 15 million against her
and then she won 2 million against him.
What gets me is like I have such like a linear brain.
I just want to do is subtracted.
Well, that's, that's what would happen
how did how did she possibly win $2 million.
Well then.
Right and that's what would happen would be
would be his
his verdict would be reduced by the amount of her verdict.
That's where it starts. OK.
And then one of the other questions was,
well then the judge reduced part of his verdict also.
What was that all about?
OK, well he got 10 million in compensatory damages.
That's lost wages, income, you know,
and obviously that number, you know, it is what it is.
The jury picked that number,
so he got 10 million in compensatory damages.
And then 5 million in punitive damages.
And punitive damages
are rarely available, and they're designed to punish.
That's why they're called punitive.
Well, there's a cap on punitive damages in that state.
The cap was $350,000.
So the jury the jury doesn't know that.
All right.
So the jury awarded 5 million in punitive damages.
So the judge reduced that to 350,000.
So Johnny's verdict is 10 million.
350,000. Her verdict is 2 million.
So his verdict is going to be reduced by her verdict.
OK, so like how long does somebody have to pay that?
Well, you get a judgment.
And so the judgment
and again,
this depends on the particular state,
and I'm not licensed in that particular state.
Break the fourth wall so you get a judgment, everything, right.
And the judgment is going to incur interest.
And in the state of in the state of Illinois, that's 9%.
And then you can collect the judgment
in any way that anybody could collect the judgment.
So you can garnish wages, you can attach bank accounts.
You know,
I don't think any of them own any property in that state.
So you'd have to go to the state where she owns property
and have to register
the judgment in that state and then start to collect.
You know, there'd be a process that you have to go through.
But let's be honest, Jan doesn't care about the number.
He cares
about getting his career back, which he clearly did.
Right.
And because of what you said, because I didn't really realize
what the jury said, OK, we want to give them
X amount of money yes.
Because sometimes people are suing for X amount of money.
Right. So that wasn't happening here. No.
The most of the time
when people sue, it's for it's for money damages.
OK, so
so when the state brings criminal charges
against somebody, it's to take away your liberty.
It's to take away your freedom, it's
to put you in jail or put you on probation.
When two individuals
sue each other, an individual can be a person as in human,
or it can be a corporation or it can be partnership.
When they sue each other,
then it's
it's typically for money damages
or it could be for like an injunction or something.
But most of the time it's for money damages.
You did something wrong to me.
So I'm suing you
to compensate me for what you did that was wrong.
All right. So last question.
Do you think that there's going to be an appeal?
Probably, you know, a big one, like we're going to get to take
some time off of work? Well, it's not on our desk.
Well, usually,
you know, again,
most of the time of appeals stuff is not publicized,
you know, and but you never know.
I mean, in this case, it might end
up being publicized, but my guess would be sure.
Why wouldn't she?
I mean, it's over a $10 million verdict.
Her net worth is supposedly less than 2 million.
Why not appeal
and ask the appellate court to at least reduce
the amount of the verdict and and also a good time
to negotiate.
Now, the one thing is, though, if she puts up an appeals,
she's got to put up a bond for the appeal.
So great time to negotiate and try to resolve the case.
I'm going to appeal. Well, you got to put up a bond.
Well, let's sit down and see if we can figure this out.
You know, and I mean, Johnny might do that
because he'd be like, what?
What, what do I care if I get 2 million or ten?
But he doesn't care.
He wants to go get a paycheck somewhere else.
He wants to go make another movie,
which is going to happen today, which we can probably better.
Thank you so much for coming in. Absolutely. My pleasure.
Thank you. Happy Father's day to everybody.
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