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DAY 20

So today I would have sworn to you that Amber would rest her case in chief. Because they had 8 hours left and need time to damage control on Johnny's rebuttal. This did not happen. Instead, they presented the three most ineffectual experts in this courtroom. Just a complete disaster. Like I keep saying complete disaster, but they are all legitimately awful in different ways and didn't help Amber's case at all.

Over the weekend they leaked to the Court TV person who has been reporting on the case that Johnny would be called to the stand (so unbearably stupid). And then today Amber's team leaked it would be so stupid for them to call Johnny to the stand. And then at the end of the day they said they didn't know if they would present him or not to the Judge. It is actually not worth them putting him on again to try and prove this counter claim. The fact they spent so much time on this counter claim is stupid in general, and they are just burying their own defense for it. So we'll see tomorrow I guess.

Oh, and jury reports right now are that this jury is fucking dead and they couldn't care less about any testimony today, save for maybe one or two. So Amber isn't getting a cent from this counter claim, if it even survives past a Motion to Strike. They are fucking over this trial now. It's last week of school right now and they're ready for summer to GTFO.

The first was a hand surgeon expert. He was, you know, fine at first. And we're all listening. He said he's read everything and watched video depositions and watched Depp's testimony where he explains what happened where he had his finger blown off. And then he goes "Yeah, Mr. Depp said he had his hand flat on the bar." He explained it was flat on the bar multiple times. And immediately you have red flags, because Depp has always said his fingers were curled over the edge of the bar. He based all of his findings off of Johnny's hand being flat on the bar and claiming the bottle being thrown was impossible with it happening like that.

Also, they showed multiple gruesome pictures of his finger blown apart and I had to literally not look at it because it looked so bad. I don't think people really get how awful this injury was because fuck it was just blown apart everywhere under the fingernail. But they argued since it didn't smash down on his fingernail that's why Johnny is lying.

So Camille Vasquez just gets up there and says "Okay so you saw everything and you were entirely inaccurate with Mr. Depp's description of where his hand was." This fucking dope then admits that she's right, and that's how he described it. And then he goes "But I believe when I demonstrated it, his fingers were slightly curled. Camille doesn't let him get away with it and tells him that multiple times he said it was flat and he was like "Maybe I misspoke." Exactly 0 people believe it. And then she pointed out that he described the bottle having hit from the top in Depp's testimony, but clarified that he actually said it was from an off-angle and he said that sure but it would still hit at the top. This guy is dead already. Just completely tried to gaslight the jury by lying about how Johnny described it.

She then asked him about if he actually saw Depp's finger and worked on it and he said no, because they have a rebuttal witness who actually worked on Depp's finger. But Camille gets him to admit that it COULD have been a vodka bottle that caused it, after he denied it initially. She also showed a bunch of pictures of the bar in Australia, where she pointed out blood in the bar area and a shattered vodka bottle. And then she asked if he considered any of that in his expert results. He said no and Camille left. Just shredded this idiot.

Rottenborn tried to fix this guy on redirect but only really tried to re-assert the narrative Johnny is lying about the vodka bottle and he was trying to throw shade Camille's way and she objected and got it sustained. lol But basically, he said it was all inconclusive what caused it. Just completely pointless.

Next up is some horrible lizard person who was presented as a domestic violence expert, but his specialty is in drug abuse and trauma named Dr. Spiegal. Like they didn't even convince this guy to comb his hair before he testified. He ran down his credentials and then Wayne, the guy on Depp's team who has been doing most of the expert direct and cross, decided to voir dire him which means to basically try disqualifying him as an expert. Speigal was a fucking weirdo who got insanely defensive with every question and basically his expertise in domestic violence was very minimal, so why is he here? Apparently everyone in the jury was united in hating this guy. He even thanked Wayne for allowing him to plug his book. This guy is just gross. But he basically makes this dude look like he doesn't know much about domestic violence and he let him talk and just be the most unsettling person that got everyone turning on him. He was never going to successfully voir dire him, but the point was exactly what I said. This guy looked HORRIBLE going into his testimony.

I'm gonna try to summarize all of the outlandish stuff this guy tried to testify to but he's a strange, strange man who did not come across well at all. Like, in general he just talks in such a strange way and asserts odd things like "I'm talking about the man, not the actor. I can't talk about the actor. But I'm talking about the man, who was addicted to drugs, and who eventually can't take anymore. But I'm not talking about the actor." Alright dude.

- Claimed that he has severe cognitive decline because of drug use, particularly with memory.
- Claimed his lines were fed to him on an ear piece (they weren't, and it was testified it wasn't).
- Said Johnny had mini-strokes without looking at a single MRI or based on anything other than he did drugs.
- Claimed that if you abuse drugs that you're absolutely going to abuse your significant others.
- Claimed Johnny speaks slowly during his testimony because he has severe cognitive decline due to drug use.
- He used his acting in movies to compare to his testimony to measure his cognitive decline.
- Johnny talking badly about Dr. Kipper is because he is a narcissist.
- Perpetrators of domestic violence do NOT seek out therapy. Only victims do.
- Johnny has narcissistic personality disorder. Bringing this case to trial is evidence of Johnny's narcissism.
- Using the law to win people over is another example of narcissism.
- "Are you familiar with gaslighting?" "Yes I am." Yeah, you're trying to do it to the jury right now.
- Listened to the audio tapes and said they were examples of Johnny gaslighting Amber.
- MARILYN MANSON

The man only spoke in absolutes too, so don't take anything I said like exaggerating--he said these things definitively with his whole chest. This guy sucked, was so creepy, and I challenge anyone to watch this guy and think he wasn't the slimiest pile of crap.

So Wayne comes up and cross examines him now. He starts with picking up with the last thing Elaine and Lurch talked about, which was the Goldwater Rule. It was a big thing because he claimed it didn't violate an ethics law to give an expert opinion on someone when you haven't conducted a direct evaluation. It's created by the American Psychology Association. This guy melted down trying to defend himself from this and would not stop talking aggressively and angrily, and he did a horrible job defending it. He knew he'd fly off the handle, so it was the perfect introduction.