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Today in Focus

Cameras in the courtroom: the spectacle of the Depp-Heard trial | Podcast

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The defamation trial was livestreamed and clipped into short videos for millions on social media. Columnist Moira Donegan on cameras in court and the impact of the case on those wanting to report domestic abuse. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:08.4

Today, Johnny Depp versus Amber Heard,

0:13.1

and YTV cameras in US courtrooms can lead to trial by social media.

0:24.8

A warning before we start, this episode has contained misogynistic language

0:29.7

descriptions of domestic violence and sexual assault.

0:36.6

Earlier this month,

0:38.0

there has been a verdict in a trial watched by millions around the world.

0:41.3

The grueling defamation case between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard finally came to an end.

0:46.5

The verdict came after six weeks of very dramatic testimony from both sides.

0:51.3

She claimed that he abused her while he said she was the abuser.

0:55.5

A seven-person jury concluded that Amber Heard had defamed Johnny Depp

0:59.2

in an article she wrote in 2018 for The Washington Post.

1:03.0

In a statement, Johnny Depp said the jury had given him his life back.

1:06.5

Amber Heard said that his disappointment she feels is beyond words.

1:10.4

And while headlines claimed victory for Depp,

1:13.3

the jury did also rule in her favor that she was also defamed by Depp's lawyer who called

1:20.3

her allegations of abuse a hoax.

1:22.5

But during the grinding and highly public six weeks of testimony,

1:32.3

the saga mutated into more than just a defamation case.

1:36.3

I'm looking for justice for Johnny because he deserves it and he's a sort of wrong he's a victim.

1:41.2

Every day, crowds lined up outside the Virginia Courthouse in the early hours of the morning,

1:46.8

hoping to be one of the hundred people allowed in the spectator's gallery.

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