Amber Heard took the stand
and started her direct testimony and I
really needed to weigh in on this thing.
So in this video, I'm going to be giving you
But I want to give you my thoughts on what I think so far.
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So, Amber Heard has taken the stand
the trial is actually on break this week
it will resume next week and Amber Heard
will take the stand again and she has started
and let me tell you, I have been watching
her so far with her direct testimony,
and I know that she's probably
got a stellar legal team.
I'm sure that she hired fantastic lawyers.
Who probably coached her and told her
how to behave.
How to come off and even with all of that
and even with all of her acting experience
and all of her acting.
Probably coaching and all of that.
I don't think she did such a hot job
and let me tell you why.
First of all, she had all of these tears
and back and forth and drama
and yet not one single tear came down.
I mean, as emotiona as she got throughout
the thing of expressing all of the drama, trauma
and chaos that she was expressing with
the history of the violence of all of that.
No one single tear actually came down
you talk about the crocodile tears.
Yeah not one single tear.
So let me go back
and give you a little bit of history of the
relationship and history of this trial
I should give you that.
So in December of 2018,
she wrote an op-ed piece in the Washington Post
and it was this veiled thing she didn't
use Johnny Depp's actual name
but she said that she was a victim of domestic
violence or survivor of domestic violence
and Johnny Depp said that piece caused him damage that
because of that Disney dropped him from being
able to do a Equal
for the Pirates of the Caribbean and it caused him damage
and therefore he turns around and
files a defamation action against her
which is a real thing because in
order to be able to prove defamation,
you have to be able to prove real damages.
So if it was true that
you know, potentially that
this thing caused him real damages,
measurable damages as a result of that piece,
which is what he's going to have to prove.
Then he potentially could be
you know, awarded damages as a result of this.
Okay.
You know, he's going to have to prove that
it was that piece that cause that damage.
So then she turns around and files a countersuit
against him for a hundred million dollars
and that's what this whole thing is.
I think they're both getting
Narcissistic Supply from each other from this whole thing
but that's another whole thing.
I did a whole video in that which
you can check out
and frankly you know,
abuse, addiction, and adultery
I think that those are the three A's.
I think that that's the three deadly sins of marriage
and obviously all three are
present with these two for sure.
Potentially, a lot of his issues
probably stem from his drug abuse.
I think that that's probably a big cause of it.
Anyway, her direct examination
starts off with a lot of the
background which is pretty common.
Grows up in Texas.
You know, she attends a lot of acting classes.
She goes on a lot of auditions.
That's pretty common way to start off a direct examination.
Fine.
So she meets him in 2008,
when she goes on an audition for Rum Diary.
She says that their relationship starts off very
magical and very idealization
and she wants it all
make it sound like it's wonderful and like a
fantasy and that he pursued her and it's great.
And then she got launches into this thing
like she's this massive victim of his abuse.
If that's the case, there were certainly a lot of red flags
and she continued in on the relationship.
Why did she do that?
I don't know.
There were a lot of red flags as she describes
where she was slapped that he was abusive to her.
There were a lot of things that certainly
happened prior to the marriage,
and she stayed in the relationship.
I mean, there's no doubt about it.
She talks about how before they got married.
Lots and lots of things happened.
He proposes to her.
She says, yes, and she describes things
that happen with flight attendants,
the thing you know with JK Rowling and the yacht and
you know there’s a lot of things that happened
that everybody can read about in The Press.
Everybody knows about the fingertip thing.
That's been done to death
and written about to death in the Press.
So I don't need to talk about that.
What I want to talk about
though is some of the things that happen
on the stand that are my observations
as a lawyer that I think could be helpful
for people who are actually dealing with
potentially going to be testifying or potentially
want to be looking at observing her
behavior from a lawyer's perspective.
So first of all, when you contrast his behavior
as a witness compared to her behavior
you know, his behavior was much more authentic frankly.
His demeanor was much more hunched over.
You know, he actually seemed to be much more broken.
You know, he came across much more a
person who had once
been in love with her.
He didn't make eye contact with her.
He didn't want to look at her.
He seemed to be hurt by her.
He seemed to be still wounded by the relationship.
She on the other hand,
often times staring him right down.
You know, it could be a sign that
she was actually sort of dominating
him kind of looking at him.
Like look, I've got you look,
I still have power over you.
That to me didn't play very well.
I don't think it would play very well with a jury either.
If I were her lawyers I would have said
don't look at him.
Don't even look over at his way. For me
I would have just said just don't don't look that direction.
It looked to me like a person who was kind of not
looking like a person who was a broken person,
a person who was is a victim of domestic violence.
If you're afraid of this person,
you're not staring this person down.
She also went between fits of crying and then smiling
and even as I mentioned earlier in this video
when she was crying you didn't actually see tears.
She didn't seem to be a broken person.
She seemed to me a person who was kind
of back and forth and even when she was
describing these periods of being abused or whatever.
She would look up to kind of look to see what
the Jury's reaction was almost as if it was
like, “how is this playing?”
“How is this coming across?”
“Are you hearing what I'm saying?"
Almost as if it wasn't true,
like it was like “are you buying it?”
“Are you buying what I'm saying?”
Kind of a thing which to me again,
didn't seem beleivable,
you know,
if you're a really truly a person who's been broken,
who's been a victim of domestic violence,
you're not looking up to see reactions like that.
It just didn't play well for me
and even if you've been coached by your lawyers,
you're not looking that way.
So just for me, as a person who has coached a lot of
clients who has helped a lot of clients prepare
for testimony that just didn't appear to be authentic.
She didn't come across as believable to me.
There were also inconsistencies in her testimony
that as a lawyer who would be
preparing for her cross-examination,
I would want answers to.
For example,
I read that her lawyer,
I guess in her opening statement, stated that she used a certain
kind of makeup, that she carried this certain of makeup with her
throughout the entirety of her relationship to cover up her bruises.
I also read that the makeup company then tweeted out.
“Hey, we didn't even start making that kind of make up
until after their relationship was over.”
I would want to know about that on cross-examination.
How is that even possible?
I would also want to know about photographs
that were tweeted by her with regard to to the dog.
Apparently, she talked about this dog and how frightened
she was with this dog and howling
and this dog was out the window
and she was so afraid about this dog out the window
and this Eerie moment that this dog
was out the window that Johnny Depp
had this dog out the window
and then apparently there was a picture of her
or she tweeted or she had a picture
of her on social media with her
own dog with face out the window of the
car like just a few days after she testified to that herself.
I would want to know about that on cross-examination.
What's up with that?
There was another inconsistency where she stated
apparently that she had avoided sex scenes in movies.
Apparently, she said that Johnny Depp
was extremely extremely jealous
and that caused her to to avoid sex scenes
that apparently she had to borrow again that every time
she got us a script that she had to be minimizing kissing scenes
because he was extremely controlling
or jealous or something like that.
But then apparently she did some major scene
in Magic Mike where she was gyrating
and had her crotch in somebody's face or
something in a sex scene during that period of time.
Again, and consistency that I would definitely
be bringing up on cross-examination if I were his lawyer,
so things like that that I'm sure probably going to be coming
up on cross-examination to discredit her.
So how do I think that she's doing on her direct examination so far?
Probably not so great.
I don't think she's finished yet.
Apparently, she's going to be taking the stand again.
When they come back after this recess,
but if I were her lawyers so far.
I would probably be having a series talking
to you about how she I think she's doing so far.
I think he did a whole lot better, both his direct examination
and his cross-examination
and he definitely had some some missteps
for sure but I think on the whole I think
he definitely did a whole lot better
because he was much more consistent.
He definitely came across as much more authentic on the stand.
For sure.
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