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Ya gurl, Elaine, is the cross examiner and sheeeee sucked. Johnny and his team would be laughing occasionally at some of the absurdity, and even the people in the court were. They spent so much time on this and it was crazy. The more inane parts are her saying "You got dinner and drinks with Johnny, right?" And she said "No, that's incorrect. I was interviewed by Johnny's legal team at Johnny's home and dinner and drinks were served." She said it was unusual, but this was a high profile case that would have a lot of eyes on it, and they were specifically interviewing people to take on this case as a result. She spent a total of like 10 minutes on this and it was absurd.

She also tried to use the words in an Expert Designation from Depp's team and prescribed them as her own words. This is scummy as fuck because these are lawyer predictions of what will be found by the expert. This is extremely common.

"It's a coincidence that your opinions lined up with what Mr. Depp claimed she was like!" "You know that you wouldn't be here testifying if your thoughts didn't line up with the Defendant, right!?" Just scummy.

Some of it wasn't terrible, and was... moderately effective? But Elaine's attitude is so abhorrent I don't think it comes across well.

Like she claimed that Dr. Curry was breaking confidentiality by telling her husband he was working with Amber Heard. This is gross because this is a serious accusation, and she based it on the fact that her husband dropped muffins off for the office and she and Amber ate muffins and Dr. Curry mentioned that her husband dropped them off for them. This is what they based it off of.

Then Elaine used the depositions and information she collected from her various psychiatrists and therapists to testify her own story. I have no idea how the Judge allowed this since a lot of these people will be testifying for the Defense later. This Judge is the shits. But Dr. Curry did mention that they said "As a therapist/psychiatrist, you are bound to take the word of your patient."

To Elaine's credit, one effective thing they did was try to inch domestic abuse back from just physical to include verbal, meaning they're probably seeing how bad their case looks for the physical part and they're shifting gears to this, which is frankly smart for them.

A confusing part was where she asked about gaslighting victims and literally described everything Johnny said about being gaslit including "feel frightened," "falsely accused," "fear of losing your reputation." Like why do you think everyone is there right now?

On re-direct he only asked two questions. One to remind them about the diagnoses, and the other to clarify that any treating physician is to assume the patient is telling the truth, and then individually asks if each Doctor mentioned was a treating physician. Boom, that's all. Dr. Curry held up extremely well here and didn't break or falter at all on the cross.

Next up is a recorded deposition from one of the officers that went to check on Amber after she called the police when Johnny left the night Amber claimed that he punched her and got the restraining order the day after. You might recall I mentioned they showed the video of her going in and out in 15 minutes in the security footage after seeing absolutely nothing and no sign of any actual abuse.

Elaine was in charge and spoke first (the opposing party asks their questions first in video depos) and the story is that the officer and her partner showed up, Amber and all of her friends refused to say a single word to them and they looked over the entire place for any damage or if there was anyone hiding, and there wasn't, so they gave her a business card to call if she feels like cooperating, and they left.

This turned into almost an hour and a half of the most circular discussion you can imagine. She told her damn story and Elaine kept asking questions repeatedly hoping that the officer would change her mind and she wouldn't. She kept saying "She had red puffy cheeks and red eyes, and you didn't think she was assaulted!?" And she just said they were red and puffy because she was crying and not because of any injuries and that she knows what it's like when someone is hurt. Just so many bad questions. She mentioned "All I remember thinking is that this place was really nice."

I thought it seemed like Elaine did the entire Plaintiff's deposition for them... and then Depp's team asked pretty much all the same questions. What the hell. Why. No additional information at all. I have no idea how they let all this in and how they didn't trim it down. What's even worse is that these have time stamps on them because they're chopped up and edited to remove objections and stuff. And this poor officer was sitting there for 7 hours total over a call they looked into for 15 minutes where NOTHING HAPPENED. This was agony.

But we're done for the day at least. (2/2)