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DAY 19

So in short, this day was a complete disaster for Amber Heard. Anything they built up from yesterday was destroyed because their case is so god damn bad. Assume all of these are video depositions unless I say otherwise.

We start off with a guy who used to be Johnny's friend and also brother-in-law named Bruce Witkin. The backstory here is that he stole millions of dollars from Johnny. So at one point he says Johnny claimed he stabbed him in the back, but he said it was CRAZY. But that's why.

There is literally nothing to gleen from this testimony aside from Johnny doing drugs, getting jealous, and that he thought Dr. Kipper is a real piece of shit that was robbing Johnny out of money. He said once he saw grab marks on Amber's arm once, but they tried to get him to say they were from a hit but he was very clear it was just from being grabbed. I have nothing more to say about Bruce Witkin.

Tracy Jacobs was up next and was Johnny Depp's talent agent. She was one of many people involved in robbing him of his money as well. She basically talked about how he would be late sometimes (the horror) and came across as very bitter that he dropped her. She referred Johnny to Dr. Kipper. That seems like reason enough to fire her, frankly. But she was just a damages witness and acted like Johnny was the reason he didn't get more work. But he dropped her a while back and he went on to do more Pirates movies so uhhh clearly his attitude wasn't the issue. But she kept acting like he made her the biggest movie star in the world.

Also apparently Johnny Depp was going to be in an Invisible Man movie before they made it lower budget with Elizabeth Moss as the lead. But that was probably the most interesting part of this.

Joel Mandel was up next, and he is an absolute pile of shit that was Johnny's business manager that robbed him of all of that money. Johnny Depp has since sued and settled for $10+ million dollars in a lawsuit. So he certainly didn't have an agenda here.

Basically, he claimed Johnny's spending was out of control, and he spent more money on drugs and alcohol, which imagine that when you have no less than 5 freeloading party losers living at your place and Amber is spending the monthly budget of a Total Wine on her own alcohol over a week.

Hilariously, Joel Mandel also didn't pay Johnny's taxes properly for a very long time and tried to weasel his way out of it being his fault despite it literally being his job. This had nothing else to it, honestly.

Also, the Judge was so fed up with Elaine not turning on her fucking microphone like she's told her to do for days now to the point that she's ignoring Elaine and Amber Heard has literally had to turn the mic on for her. Absolutely incredible.

Next up is Adam Waldman, who was Johnny Depp's UK attorney. His statements in Rolling Stone where he said Amber Heard concocted a hoax is the basis for Amber's counter-claim. So they needed to bring him on to justify it. Amber filing a counter-claim has absolutely screwed her, because this witness obliterated her and was so damaging.

Here's the problem though. Literally all of his communication with Johnny is protected by attorney-client privileged, which basically means anything as an attorney, anything you say to your client cannot be used against you. So you know what happened every time they asked Waldman anything? Ben Chew was there and said "I advise you not to answer on the grounds of attorney-client privilege." And Waldman said he would not answer on those grounds. COMPLETELY fair. So this went on for what felt like an hour of Elaine asking questions and Chew and Waldman shutting it down. Some of the questions were out of line from Elaine because she knew that he couldn't answer. The jury mostly checked out when they realized that this was a waste of their time since Waldman could not answer. Like Elaine asked these questions to make some kind of narrative but nobody is going to pay attention to it because Elaine is Elaine and they recognize it's all speculation since Waldman can't answer. So here's some highlights.

Adam Waldman said he had a lifetime ban on Twitter, and when he asked what he did wrong, they refused to answer why. Apparently certain members of the jury were amused when he was talking about his ban there.

Rottenborn takes over after Elaine's disaster and he asked if Waldman can name any witnesses that led him to believe it was a hoax. He said "It may be easier if I pick a certain instance, such as what led to the images that were on Peoples magazine when she filed her restraining order." The man dead ass named 27 people who he had statements from that said Amber had no bruise on her face from the date Johnny left to the date that Amber filed for her restraining order. He just rattled off names. This included people that Amber has had testifying for her already and elaborated on why it helped prove it was a hoax. I cannot believe this happened.

He also asked if Waldman talked to other social media users and named people who have been detailing all of this stuff, and he said he only did so on phone or via an app they will NEVER get anything from that I can't remember. These people live rent free in Amber's head for exposing her for a while.

Then Rottenborn asked why Waldman said that Amber was going to be investigated for perjury by the LAPD when they weren't investigating it. Then Waldman goes "That's mischaracterizing. The timeline is that the LAPD told me they were going to investigate her for perjury, I put out the statement, and then the LAPD told me the LA Sheriff's Department were in charge of investigating it now." He said he gave a binder full of statements and spoke to the desk officer who said they were investigating it because they found merit in it. So now the jury knows that Amber is seriously being investigated for lying under oath. And it's said that the jury clearly reacted to this. Absolutely devastating. I would have rather let the counter-claim die than sacrifice the defense so badly for this testimony.

So to keep track, LA Sheriff's Department, Australia's government, and supposedly the UK government are all investigating for Amber for perjury.

Then they brought on an internal investigator for the police department's domestic abuse investigations, so she basically makes sure any and all domestic abuse claims are properly looked into. They spent a lot of time for her to explain how it works and not say a single thing about how the officers didn't investigate it properly. A complete and utter waste of time. Positively amazing they used this person at all.

And oh my god, we get a live one! The only live witness of the day! His name is Rob Schnell and he works at the Berkley Research Group and he has a crazy background where he was a professor at college at age 14. He has a lot of qualifications concerning technology and mainframes... but nothing concerning social media? Like, really impressive dude, but he has no background in what he was actually talking about, and it really showed. Depp's team tried to voir dire him, which means to verify (stop) him from being an expert, but then he said he's not an expert, I think? I dunno, it was confusing and I won't pretend to know what happened there. But this guy has also never testified in court before.

Basically, this guy compiled certain hashtags on Twitter to try showing damage of public opinion to Amber. These included pro and anti Johnny and Amber Tweets. The first thing they pulled up was the most horrific excel spreadsheet that I'm sure made everyone shrivel up and recoil in terror upon seeing it. It was so poorly formatted and just difficult to see what lines lined up with what rows and so much negative space and oh my god nobody took anything from it.