The jury within the Amber Heard v. Johnny Depp defamation trial reached a verdict on Wednesday afternoon after simply 12 hours and 45 minutes of deliberation.

Closing arguments within the trial have been heard on Friday and the jury has been deliberating since then, taking a break for the Memorial Day weekend and coming again on Tuesday. On Wednesday afternoon the jury introduced they've reached a verdict.

Depp sued ex-wife Heard for $50 million following an op-ed the actress wrote wherein Depp argued she defamed him by claiming to be a sufferer of home abuse.

The decision was learn stay in courtroom on June 1 at 3 p.m. ET, and the jury dominated nearly solely in Depp's favor.

Whereas many had predicted a number of totally different verdict outcomes, the jury discovered that Depp proved his ex-wife defamed him on all three counts.

The three statements from Heard's op-ed that have been the topic of the defamation trial have been:

  • "I spoke up in opposition to sexual violence—and confronted our tradition's wrath. That has to alter."
  • "Then two years in the past, I grew to become a public determine representing home abuse, and I felt full drive of our tradition's wrath for girls who converse out."
  • "I had the uncommon vantage level of seeing, in actual time, how establishments defend males accused of abuse."

The jury discovered that each one three statements proved to be defamatory in opposition to Depp, additionally ruling that they discovered Depp proved Heard acted with precise malice when making all three statements. The Pirates of the Caribbean actor was awarded $15 million in damages.

Heard was awarded $2 million in damages in a partial win for her counterclaim, because the jury dominated that one of many three statements made by Depp's lawyer, Adam Waldman, proved to be defamatory in opposition to Heard.

Nonetheless, Heard launched a press release following the decision studying, saying, "The frustration I really feel at the moment is past phrases. I am heartbroken that the mountain of proof nonetheless was not sufficient to face as much as the disproportionate energy, affect, and sway of my ex-husband."

"I am unhappy I misplaced this case," she stated. "However I'm sadder nonetheless that I appear to have misplaced a proper I believed I had as an American—to talk freely and brazenly."

In the meantime, Depp said that he's "humbled" by the decision.

"Six years later, the jury gave me my life again. I'm really humbled," Depp wrote in a press release shared on Instagram. "I hope that my quest to have the reality be instructed may have helped others, males or ladies, who've discovered themselves in my scenario, and that these supporting them by no means surrender."

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The jury within the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial has reached a verdict after a complete of 12 hours and 45 minutes of deliberation. On this picture, a view of the courtroom as jury deliberations proceed within the Depp v. Heard trial on the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on Might 31, 2022.JIM WATSON/POOL/AFP through Getty Photos