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I had off today, so all I pretty much did was binge the trial, drink whiskey & eat tacos, so I feel like one of Amber's turds.

Yesterdays Trial
There were multiple witnesses, but it pretty much was Heard that everyone cared about and it was the return of Hallmark Movie Heard again: lots of houghy acting, rising crescendos & the Heard special of no tears (maybe she's a reptilian or something). The whole thing was a disaster, as she went on a histrionic rant about how the Twitter people were out to get her & if the jury did not vote against the Depp then they would microwave her baby or something. It was total cringe and the desperate testimony was anhilated in cross. At this point you can see the utter hatred that Heard has for Vazquez. Heard may not have PTSD from Depp, but I feel like she is going to get it from Vazquez and her ruthless cross examinations.

Closing
For Depp, it was nearly flawless. Good pacing, structure and points. It pretty much salted the earth of anyone ever believing Heard by reiterating the lies that she told over and over and over again, bolstered Johnny by showing his life and how damaging Heard's lies were and then ended by a call to action to save Depp by voting yes on defamation. Very enjoyable.

For Heard, I thought Rottenborn's closing was pretty good. He tried to pivot domestic abuse from physcial to verbal and emotional and supported his argument with strong evidence. Although, ultimately it is far too late. Depp's team have essentially set the parameters for domestic abuse to be physical pretty early an area Heard as very little evidence for, so this shift to try to define it as verbal and emotional this late in the trial is ineffective.

However, regardless of how good Rottenborn did, crazy cat women Elaine ultimately mucked things up to an unmanageable degree. She was pressed for time so she was going at 2x speed the whole time and was just spewing a word salad of unintelligible garbage. She came across as the drunk conspiratorial aunt at a Thanksgiving party and pretty much screwed up everything Rottenborn was doing, by confusing the hell out of the Jury and burning almost all the time for rebuttal. What a garbage lawyer.