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DAY 23

We're almost done! And fortunately, this day was shorter because they didn't need to use all of their time! It was a hell of a day too.

Important note of the day is that Ben Chew has an alpaca doll with him all day today. When it got knocked down, he was setting it back upright. You could see it in his pockets at times too.

Depp has oooone more witness named Dr. Stephen Gilbert. He is a professional hand surgeon who does 300-400 hand surgeries a year, and basically all he did here was confirm that Johnny's finger wasn't crushed or sliced and wasn't broken with a phone like Amber tried to claim in one of her multiple different stories. He said this because the finger nail and top of his finger were purely intact and unhurt, and the rest of his fingers were fine and not bruised or anything if he was smashing it with a phone. He tore up the other surgeon Amber had who was a clown anyway and not to be taken seriously too.

Rottenborn crossed and tried to use weasel words and if you know Rottenborn during this whole thing, you have picked up on this entirely. He wasn't trying to prove that any of Amber's theories were true, he just tried to tear down the bottle idea. On redirect the newbie attorney who has done a few more of these did a good job rehabbing and reaffirming what he was saying why everything else but the bottle story was bullshit. That's it.

Johnny's rebuttal is closed! We're onto the Amber sur-rebuttal now! And keep in mind she has a little over an hour, so they made these QUICK.

Some computer forensic dude comes up whose name I couldn't be bothered to remember. I'll be honest, after hearing about all of the digital forensic stuff yesterday I'm kinda over hearing about it today. From what I hear, the jury felt the same. But he went up there to defend that the metadata in all the photos was fiiiiiine. But he wouldn't show any of the photos when he showed the metadata. That's really weird. So people were even more confused and checked out of it. Just horrible demonstratives here that were impossible to follow. I just don't understand how they thought he'd help.

Neither did Wayne, because he got up there and tore this apart effortlessly. This guy was just really evasive so he didn't look good. Like when Wayne asked if he could identify any of these as authentic originals and he was cagey about it. And when he brought up that they were coming from a photo editing software, he said that's not right because it came from Photos 3.0 which is a photo editing AND sorting software. Alright dude. Wayne then shows some of the altered pictures side-by-side and then this guy says they're visually different. So Wayne pulls up a bunch of identifying information with the time, date, file name, and location these were created, and they're both literally identical. He tries to bullshit about how he can't tell because he hasn't seen the metadata for them, which is exactly the point. Sunk. Redirect was just a few questions and... this was basically nothing.

Then fuck, Dr. Hughes is back to be smug about her credentials and busted testing. Apparently the jury was highly unimpressed with her after Dr. Curry took her down. The other issue is that Dr. Hughes had to rush through all of this so fast that it was just kind of noise. She sounded so condescending too so you're just bound to punt her to the curb. She made a big deal about Dr. Curry not following instructions with a "trust me bro I'm more qualified" reasoning.

Wayne came back with a vengeance though. He came up there and casually started to point out literally everything Dr. Hughes did incorrectly with her testing, pulling his source from the damn manuals.

"So you agree with me that we should read the manual. Would you also agree with me that you need to read the directions?"

Savagery. Big ones were that she used a test that wasn't supposed to be used, that referred her to use a different test instead, but she used both in her diagnosis. And that for one test Amber was supposed to describe her symptoms in the past year, but that Dr. Hughes instructed her to go back to when Amber was still in the relationship and describe her symptoms to determine if she had PTSD. This was effective because Dr. Hughes was so pissed off the whole time and it showed how defensive she was over it.

Elaine tried to redirect and was trying to get her to name a bunch of things that made her have PTSD, which meant she just wanted her to name off a bunch of bullshit Amber claimed happened again. Wayne was objecting like mad to all of these and winning them all. One time Elaine tried to plead her case after the Judge said it was sustained, and then the Judge just responded with "Sustained". She is going to be so happy to not deal with Elaine for a long time again. This was just not helpful at all and it didn't help their case at all.

And next is the main event, and the last thing the jury gets to see: Amber Heard comes back to the stand. This is such an awful idea. Amber's team HAS to be able to read the jury in general right now, and they have to know Amber is a loose cannon that cannot be controlled and just opens her mouth and looks terrible. I think they tried to advise her not to go back up but Amber demanded it, thinking she could turn this jury. I'll spoil it ahead of time, but the jury here was a combination of not looking at her at all, or actively looking at her incredulously during her testimony. This jury has no sympathy to give Amber Heard anymore. She's cooked. So when she is pleading her heart out and talking about how hard everything has been, and THAT'S the reaction she gets from the people deciding her fate? Who is going to actively argue in her favor at this point, when reports from multiple people reflect this? When there's at least 4 jurors who clearly don't buy into anything she's saying, with one actively mean mugging her the whole time. It's one thing to speculate what the jury is probably thinking as a reasonable person, but when you have eye witnesses telling you what the jury did, it's a whole other thing.

Rottenborn did this direct, thank fucking god. Because Elaine doing it would be even more disastrous. She starts off by saying that she's being threatened every day and that people are calling her a liar and that they're threatening to kill her and put her baby in a microwave, then claimed out of nowhere that Johnny Depp threatened her that if she ever left him he would make her think of him every single day she lived. Now imagine a jury hearing this and actively not caring. This is where we're at.

Amber then claimed that the Waldman statements have echoed and she is reliving the trauma from it, her hands shake constantly, and she wakes up screaming. I guess because someone said you were committing a hoax. Her friends and significant others need to live with unspoken rules on how to not surprise or scare her. Otherwise she'll have a panic attack, and that she'll have a meltdown for combat scenes in movies because she's just trying to SURVIVE. Then, outrageously, she claims she's not in the courtroom snickering, laughing, and making snide jokes. Remember when I told you guys the jury saw her jump out of her seat and cheer and gave her a weird look? Guess how good that claim is going to land. The jury has absolutely been watching her too.

And then she said SHE IS A HUMAN BEING, and that she doesn't deserve this, and that Johnny promised he'd do this to her! And that the comments had sent MILLIONS OF PEOPLE to attack her on Johnny's behalf. This was objected to and Amber just keeps talking over it. This is constant for her. But she gets objected to, immediately turns off the fury and hysterics, calmly waits, then immediately jumps back into her frantic yelling. It's not even subtle. It's just alarming.