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'Amber could have chopped it off with an axe and it has nothing to do with whether or not Mr Depp abused her'
Ben Rottenborn moves on to the messages Johnny Depp wrote on mirrors while in Australia in 2015, some with blood from his severed finger.
He says there has been a lot of discussion about how the injury happened but "
frankly it's irrelevant" to the jury.
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Amber could have chopped it off with an axe and it has nothing to do with whether or not Mr Depp abused her. But we all know she didn't."
Mr Rottenborn refers to a mirror message which mentions "
Billy Bob" and "
Easy Amber" in reference to one of Heard's co-stars, Billy Bob T.
"
Who was the lunatic in the house?" Mr Rottenborn asks the jury, saying Depp's team tried to claim Heard had written some of the messages.
Later, he refers again to some of the language Depp has used in texts about women and says he doesn't need to read it out again.
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This is the way he thinks about women. Not what you heard on the stand. It's disgusting."
Mr Rottenborn also reminds the jury of messages and recorded audio in which Depp said he had "
chopped my finger off", saying the actor acknowledged that he caused the injury.
Fast-forwarding a few weeks, Heard's lawyer says Depp and Heard had an argument when the actress learned he was "
having an affair with a woman named Rochelle" that had been going on before they were married and afterwards.
This has been referred to as the "
staircase incident". Heard has admitted hitting Depp during this incident, saying: "
I punched him square in the face."
But she did so because she was defending herself and her sister, Mr Rottenborn says.