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DAY 7

This is the continuation of the cross-examination of Johnny Depp. I'm just going to put all of this out here at the front: this was miserable. There are a few shining gems of success from Rottenborn here between him taking play on words or clear jokes to make it seem like Johnny was seriously saying things about being abusive, and saying "drug man bad", while also playing some clips that ranged from effective to baffling why they even put them out there. It was today it became extremely apparent they just have no real defense.

Another reason this will be frustrating to summarize is because this was all over the place. There's no story, there's no cohesive timeline they're trying to follow. They are just going across all amount of years in an attempt to confuse the jurors of everything, and it probably worked to their detriment. So at best I can just pluck out important stuff from here. And, yes, Johnny was often throwing barbs at the attorney.

To put it in perspective, I'll explain the first line of questioning. The day prior, Johnny testified that it didn't make sense to him about how beating someone to make them do what he wanted didn't make sense to him. And then this day, he opens by having Johnny tell a story about how once his father hit him out of frustration as a kid and he did what he wanted. Thus, he actually WOULD think beating someone would make them do what they want. This is the sort of thing we're dealing with.

There's also a text where him and Paul Bettany are joking about Amber being a witch, based on a Monty Python sketch, about burning her, drowning her, and fuck her corpse to make sure she's dead. You might think "Wow! That's really bad!" And yes, it is. But this is the worst of what they had on things he said about her, which is why they opened with this. And it's SO STUPID because on re-direct, they're just going to have him explain this and make it reasonable (spoilers: he did).

They start pulling up texts about him drinking and doing pills and also about them slinging insults at each other. And for half of these, he gives a perfectly reasonable explanation to them. And they make a big deal out of his usage of the word "Monster" because Amber has said it was what he turned into when he drank or got high, and half the examples they have are of the "Monster" being his addiction.

Then they show the infamous picture of the coke and the entire glass of whiskey with a bunch of identifying information and oops Amber Heard's driver's license there, all carefully placed. If you heard about this originally, you probably saw it and may have thought "This seems fake." In fact, Johnny called it "Quite a composition." He continues to allude to it being fake. But this is where that exchange someone linked to Johnny having cocaine in a box. It was literally the only instance they found of any "lie" Johnny told, when he said he doesn't think he carried cocaine in his little box, and he said in the UK trial he did have cocaine in this box. It's such a non-issue though because they literally didn't catch him giving another single different answer from the UK trial. Johnny remarked things were "perfectly placed" in the image and just didn't let up on keeping it in their heads that this picture is fake because it's so absurd.

Rottenborn also lost numerous objections because they kept going to a sidebar to discuss them. Another frustrating thing is that he would play clips and not include a question with them, which is improper and they should have been objecting to these too.

They also want to present that he would black out, and he used another picture you may have seen with him having ice cream all over his lap. He mentioned that Amber had given him the ice cream to hold and he fell asleep since he had worked 17 hours straight on a film. And "I was not partaking in the festival of ice cream, clearly, since my other hand was in my pocket." And Rottenborn says, "So you're saying it was her fault for this picture then?" And he said, "She snapped it." Throughout this day, he clarifies he hasn't blacked out at all and was just passing out or going to sleep.

They also opened Johnny up to explain that opiates didn't get him high because it's an extreme downer, and he took them to get his body regular when he was addicted. Later, he also tries to explain how that works and Rottenborn cuts him off eventually, because Johnny knows exactly what he's talking about, and he said "Sorry, I was just trying to school you."

Rottenborn also brought up a lawsuit in which Johnny is being sued for supposedly punching someone in the face on set and that should have gotten the Judge screaming at him, and after a sidebar they actually let him ask a little bit about it. I do not understand how this Judge decides her objections.

He got Johnny to tell a story about how he was out with Amber and a bunch of Amber's friends and one woman got extremely high and was hanging all over Amber and he took her hand off of Amber and told her that the girl needs to learn how to handle herself if she had drugs and that she was being rude and invasive. Rottenborn tried to hit him with a gotcha by claiming he actually screamed at her and told her "Keep your hands off of my girl" and he had said that wasn't how it went. So Rottenborn pulled the UK transcript and read it happening like I had explained it above. So when anyone points to the "cocaine box" stuff, this right here is how it went most of the rest of the time--Rottenborn trying to catch him on things when HE was the one who misremembered. He used this to try saying Johnny was jealous but Johnny explained that was a small part of the argument and was saying he was protecting her. Oh and he also punched something in the bathroom.

And the audacity of this one, where he tries to get Johnny to admit he was drunk on the plane incident and he re-reads the UK transcript where his answer was "Sure, for the purposes of getting through this, let's say yes. Everything that you said, I agree." Like you would need to be an idiot to think he actually meant he was admitting to it with that. He also plays an audio of Johnny making awful moaning noises of pain and Rottenborn says it was on the flight, and Johnny says it definitely was not.

Apparently Johnny was pretty pissed that the Pirates 5 screenplay sucked, and he thought it should be much better, and was rather depressed about it because he had done so much for the Jack Sparrow character and felt he was just being wasted.