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You can tell who has watched the trial here, and who have read the media narrative of the trial and made their opinions off that narrative.

The UK trial was a debacle, because the judge took Amber Heard's testimony as truth and the judge refused to admit any evidence that could refute the accusation claims. The judge also has a direct family connection with the Sun.

Based off the UK case, it was widely expected at first that Johnny Depp would lose the US case in an even worse fashion, as defamation verdict is much harder in the US.

In the US case however, the key difference was that evidence that could put into question the testimony itself was allowed (as it should be in a fair trial). What we got was undeniable convincing evidence that not only was her whole testimony a lie, all the purported evidence was fabricated by her, down to the bruises and the pictures. Everything she said was a lie and all her proof was proven with convincing corroborating evidence to be false.

For whatever reason, BBC and the Guardian have ran this story that the UK was just since it had a judge ruling, while the US was a public opinion case because it had a jury. That is such a horrible representation of the justice system; Canada uses a Jury for the most serious criminal offenses precisely to have a more fair ruling for the accused. By all accounts, the jury in the US case should have been easier for Amber Heard to win.

That she couldn't win, doesn't make this a public opinion farce after the fact, it's that the evidence was so strong again her testimony, that she met all criteria that would count towards defamation out of malice. Had he lost the case, despite the evidence that was presented, the narrative would have been how the jury was fair and was the first step of justice triumphing over misogamy and a sign of great things to come.

I do hope this case has been a bit of an eye opener for some here on how easily a narrative can be created by the media and mold what they want you to believe, versus the truth.

Interestingly, the division here hasn't been on the left / right spectrum, but of the "watched the case" / "not watched the case but read the news" variety.