VA - Johnny Depp's defamation case against ex Amber Heard, who countersued #9

[Allabouttrial]

This is still Depp's rebuttal.

 

[BeachSky]

This is AH's witness with an hour left?

Depp final witness I think ….

 

[Shelby1]

This is AH's witness with an hour left?

No this is JD's witness.

 

[steff13]

That's where I was confused; I thought the guy doing the questioning was AH's attorney.

Clearly I need some kind of a flow chart.

 

[makayla]

AH team has so little time left, so would they want to waste too much of their time crossing Dr. Gilbert?

 

[fred&edna]

This is still Depp's rebuttal.

Depp final witness I think ….

No this is JD's witness.

Thank you three and all for clarifying!

ETA: I obviously need lots more coffee

 

[gloomy]

Thank you three and all for clarifying!

ETA: I obviously need lots more coffee

Same eeeek!

 

[squareandrabbet]

Thank you three and all for clarifying!

ETA: I obviously need lots more coffee

yes, once JD team rests, Amber gets to put on a ‘sur-rebuttal’… if they’ve any time left in their arsenal.

 

[Kiranerys]

The jublilee celebrations begin on June 2nd( the anniversary date of the Queen's coronation) and continues through to Sunday. Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd are bank holiday days.

Thankyou! Can you tell I'm not a royalist lol?

 

[gloomy]

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[BeachSky]

This X-ray is the bomb IMO.
You can talk & talk about an injury but to SHOW the person the damage is the key.
Also the nerve endings in the fingers & toes are not protected by much. Most people would CRINGE seeing this X-ray imagining the PAIN.

MOO

 

[Kiranerys]

Depp final witness I think ….

No flight attendant or forensic pathologist like we thought?

 

[steff13]

This is another good witness. He's giving a clear description of how this could have happened. All of JD's experts have been so clear in how they've explained things. I think that makes such a big difference.

 

[khaki]

I liked JD's attorney, so young, bet his mom is watching LOL,
and really like this witness. He made much more clear the nature of Johnny's injury, especially that it was oblique.

 

[fred&edna]

Nothing can hide that pompous smirk. Unfortunately.

Has anyone besides me noticed the left side of her face seems to droop. I'm not making fun of her face (totally not meant as smirk snark)... I wonder if any surgeries might have caused nerve and/or muscle damage/changes?

 

[gloomy]

How convenient for AH to not know how it happened. Of course I would trust JD how it happened because it happened to him. AH probably attacked him several times that night so she may not know how she caused it, but she caused it imo.

 

[BeachSky]

No flight attendant or forensic pathologist like we thought?

I know …
Court tv keeps saying final witness .
Hope they are wrong

 

[Allabouttrial]

Sky News

Hand surgeon backs Johnny Depp's story of how severed finger injury occurred

Expert witness Dr Richard Gilbert, a hand surgeon, tells the court he was asked to review the evidence relating to Johnny Depp's infamous severed finger injury, which happened in Australia in 2015.

Dr Gilbert says Depp told him that a vodka bottle had "exploded", causing the injury. The actor has accused Heard of throwing the bottle; she denies this and says he caused the injury himself by banging a landline phone against a wall, the court is told.

The nature of Depp's injury was a fracture of the tip of the finger with "multiple pieces", which means there was some kind of "blunt force". The actor also sustained loss of tissue, the jury hears.

X-rays of Depp's hand are presented to the court and Dr Gilbert says he suffered a sharp laceration due to the "clean edges of the wound" and that it is an injury that was caused by "high velocity or force".



"I do believe so," the surgeon says, when asked if the injury could have been sustained in the way Depp has described.

He says Heard's story is "highly unlikely" as it would be "rare" for an injury such as Depp's to have been caused in this way. The actor would more likely have injured a different part of his hand, he says, and he saw no signs of this "whatsoever".

Asked why the injury is consistent with Depp's story, the surgeon says: "As Mr Depp described the bottle exploded so it's certainly reasonable that the glass that exploded as well led to the soft tissue loss."

Dr Gilbert says he agrees with "certain parts" of previous testimony by a previous doctor, Dr Richard Moore, but not all of it. Dr Moore said he disagreed with Depp's version of how the injury occurred, saying it was a "pinching" injury.

Dr Gilbert says there are two components to the injury - the fracture and the loss of soft tissue.

A pinch injury would lead to jagged borders in the remaining tissue, which isn't depicted in the pictures, the surgeon says. He adds that he believes a vodka bottle thrown from a distance would be "more than sufficient force" to result in the injury Depp sustained.

Dr Gilbert also says that thick glass from a bottle would not necessarily lead to glass shards being in the wound.

"Nobody can definitively state" how the injury occurred, he tells the court.

 

[steff13]

We also need to remember that both the security guard and the nurse tried to treat the finger prior to JD going to the hospital, so it's possible any glass that was in it was cleaned up.

 

[Breathe]

Interesting that AH has her hair hiding her face from the Judge again when she testifies.