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So you know everything that Dr. Curry said about Amber and her disorders and her feigning PTSD? Dr. Hughes here says that Amber had no disorders but absolutely did have PTSD. Everything that Dr. Curry said, Dr. Hughes claimed the opposite, more or less. It's expected, really. You want to bring an expert that will contradict a lot of what the other expert says. But it felt very much like the very exact opposite.

The thing that probably looked the worst was that she was trying to read from her notes on her testing results, and explain how she was evaluating Amber, to the point they had to talk to the judge multiple times while Elaine was saying "It's just a sticky note!" When she's dead ass holding up pieces of paper and reading off it. This is not supposed to be allowed because if the expert is using materials in a testimony, the other party is allowed to see all of these notes and such, and Depp's team wasn't given any of it. Johnny's entire legal team was exasperated by it. In contrast, Dr. Curry didn't have to read off any notes or papers, like an expert is supposed to do. Even worse was that Dr. Hughes looked so pissed when they kept objecting to this.

Also strange is that she basically said she took everything Amber said as the full on truth. And why it looks bad that Dr. Hughes had to keep looking at her notes for the actual important testing results and details is that she named about 30+ stories and situations of a lot of the stories Amber told about Johnny one after another. She was full on testifying for Amber at this point, which was extremely jarring after having heard Johnny's case in full because we have heard stories from witnesses who were reliable and you just go "This doesn't check out." In one instance, supposedly during the Australia incident where Johnny had his finger blown off, she said that Amber reported that she was violated with a bottle which... come on. None of that adds up with what we know about that night and what people have said.

Dr. Hughes made a critical mistake for Amber Heard though. She said that there was no evidence of Amber being abusive in any relationship before Johnny or after Johnny. They immediately objected and went to talk to the Judge. This is outrageously significant because in normal situations, you can't bring up prior bad acts to prove current bad acts. However, if a witness brings up a prior act that's out of the scope to prove a point in their case, that means that they can use it to counter their point. This is absolutely awful for Amber because she was arrested for having beaten the shit out of her ex-wife at an airport in 2009. And it's also awful because there are pictures of Elon Musk having bruises on his face when he and Amber were dating. So now, they get to bring both of these things up not only to Dr. Hughes and ask "Okay but did you consider this situation in your study?" AND they can just outright ask Amber "So tell us about when you got arrested for beating up your ex-wife." Frankly, Dr. Hughes should have known better than to open up for that with her experience level. We won't find out until tomorrow if the Judge is allowing it, but I'll be surprised if she didn't because it was pretty clear.

Another bizarre moment was that the expert can only testify what they put on the Expert Designation (you may remember me talking about that before with Dr. Curry), and they objected to Dr. Hughes trying to give her opinion on why Amber didn't leave the relationship based on her studies. Elaine goes "Well point to where it's not on the designation." She lost this sidebar. There were so many sidebars in this testimony.

That was it for today. They'll start up with the cross examination on this tomorrow. I think this was a very poor witness because she just named a bunch of stuff. This probably would have been more effective AFTER we have eye witnesses who testified to a lot of this stuff so you can be like "Okay, I can believe these stories..." but everything we know about Amber that the Plaintiffs have said about Amber Heard is that she's just a liar. So all of these wild stories just immediately get heard with bad faith.