Thread by @LuciaOC_

Wow. Absolutely huge day yesterday. I’ll do my best to summarise. #DeppHeardTrial

JD returned to the stand. I thought this was going to be very narrow in scope, just confirming that he didn’t know about the Waldman statements – in the end it was anything but. As before, JD was (for the most part) a very personable witness. He’s friendly, polite, makes jokes

He was asked what it was like listening to AH’s testimony and allegations during this trial. He replied: “Insane. Horrible. Ridiculous, humiliating, ludicrous, painful, savage, unimaginably brutal, cruel and all false. All false.”

He also spoke directly to the jury about why we had brought the case. “This is not easy for any of us. I know that. No matter what happens, I did get here and I did tell the truth. And I have spoken up for what I've been carrying on my back reluctantly for six years."

He repeated that he has never physically/sexually abused AH. "I have never in my life committed sexual battery, physical abuse. All these outlandish, outrageous stories of me committing these things and living with it for six years and waiting to be able to bring the truth out.”

Depp’s lawyers also asked him about being hit by AH during their honeymoon, and was shown two photos of him with a black eye during that time, which he confirmed did show his "shiner".

He also showed the jury some more photos of the severed-finger night. It seems really important to his team that at the end of the day, the jury believes his story about the finger rather than hers (which is smart – those photos of the injury are hard to forget).

Alright, cross. This was one of the first times I’ve seen AH’s lawyers do a properly successful cross. A few important things came out. Firstly, AH’s team asked him if he has said, describing women he wants to be involved with, “I need, I want, I take”. He categorically denied it

He was then presented with new text message evidence showing that he said exactly this, in all caps. Yikes. He seemed taken aback, said the messages must have been tampered with, repeated his denial that he’d never said it.

He was also shown a message in which he said: “Molly’s pussy is RIGHTFULLY MINE!!! Should I not just bust in and remove its hinges tonight?” He again said that maybe the texts had been messed with or someone had his phone.

Important to note, I think, that with JD’s history of being a *very* endearing witness, this got him noticeably riled up and a bit snarky. His tone stayed this way for most of the rest of the cross.

In another interesting moment, he was shown evidence that the honeymoon photos, in which he appeared to have a black eye, were photoshopped. JD responded by saying he thought it was the other way around: the photo where he looks like he doesn’t have a black eye is the edited one.

While we're on the subject of doctored photos, we also heard from a metadata expert who said that AH’s bruise photos had been run through an editing program. He that different versions "don't match forensically" & had been through "some type of transformation to change sizes"

Ok, back to JD. His lawyers also used this re-call to get him to talk about why this case is different from the UK trial (AH’s team "opened the door" to this, as we say in legal speak, when they said to him: “you’ve had a chance to tell your story before, haven’t you?”)

So JD was able to explain to the jury on re-direct that in that case AH was only a witness and that there were limitations on the evidence he was allowed to present. It's interesting, in a law-nerdy way, that they don't seem to be allowed to discuss the outcome of that case.

We also heard from the TMZ reporter who received the tip including the smashing-cabinets video. The judge overruled a motion from TMZ to stop him from testifying based on first amendment protections of journalists’ sources. Also VERY interesting, from a law-nerd perspective.

Overall, this was, in my opinion, extremely damaging for Johnny Depp. Between those misogynistic texts and his aggression on the stand, he came off looking... not good.

So JD’s team, I think, wanted to hear that the reporter had got the video from AH or one of her agents. He didn’t say this – he said it came through the email tipline and he doesn’t know who sent it. BUT

He did say that he was tipped off to take photos of AH when she was leaving the courthouse after getting her TRO. This goes to their argument about her state of mind/motive in terms of publicity around the TRO.

We also had another battle of the experts. Dr Curry was re-called to rebut Dr Hughes, and as before, she was a personable witness. She said that Dr Hughes had used improper tests to get to her conclusions, and that she relied too heavily on AH’s self-reporting.

She also said that Dr Hughes drew inappropriate conclusions about what had actually happened in the relationship, which Dr Curry says you cannot tell from this kind of testing.

Dr Curry re-iterated her testimony that she doesn’t believe AH has PTSD because, apart from testing results, she says that AH is highly functional and that PTSD is extremely debilitating – requires breaks from work, people become housebound, can’t “go to the store”.

I’m not going to say anything about that because I don’t think I can be "neutral" about it. I have PTSD, and have had periods out of work etc, but sometimes am functional. Anyway, I don’t think I should comment on that.

On cross, Curry was asked about having dinner & drinks at JD’s house with JD and his team. Again, I don’t know why this kind of effective cross wasn’t on display before, but it landed this time. It does seem v strange to drink at what Curry described as an “interview”.

AH’s lawyer also pressed her on the fact that she never disclosed this dinner/drinks with JD. Curry said she didn’t disclose it because the interview was standard procedure for her. AH's lawyer pressed her on whether it is standard to go to a client's home.

Ok, KATE MOSS. She testified that JD did NOT push her down the stairs in Jamaica, per the rumour (repeated by AH). She said he never pushed her down any stairs, but she was not asked about the rest of the relationship. No cross of Kate. Interesting choice.

We also heard from an airport worker who saw the incident in which AH was arrested on DV charges against her ex-partner. (I assume this is what she was describing, although I don't know if we were specifically told this)

She said that she witnessed AH become “aggressive toward her travelling companion” and that AH ripped a necklace off her. The airport worker said she had to break up a fight between the two women.

Umbrella Guy has circulated claims that the texts were incoming, not outgoing. Firstly, this was addressed in court and JD accepted that the metadata shows it's from him. Secondly, if it's true, I promise JD's lawyers will not let the jury deliberate without correcting it