Jury's duty in Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial doesn't track public debate

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Jury's duty in Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial doesn't track public debate
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What the jury considers will be very different from the public debate that has engulfed the high-profile proceedings.

Johnny Depp called his ex-wife's accusations of sexual and physical abuse "insane" Wednesday as he returned to the witness stand in his libel suit against Amber Heard.Depp's lawyers point to two passages in the article that they say clearly refer to Depp.

The jury, which has to come to a unanimous decision for a verdict, must decide whether those passages in the Post are defamatory. And the verdict form gives them step-by-step instructions on how to determine that. Depp's lawyers, though, say the two passages are clear references to Depp, given the publicity that surrounded their 2016 divorce proceedings.

As for the abuse itself, Depp's lawyers tried to suggest to the jury that if they think Heard is lying or embellishing any of her abuse claims, that she can't be trusted and that all of her abuse claims must be dismissed as untrustworthy.

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