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CreekCo posted...

Johnnys lawyer made a printed assertion he could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt. You cant do that. So the jury awarded her 2 million for his lawyers hyperbole but zilch for anything else.

But he does not have to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. He doesn't have to prove anything, she was the one filing the claim. Amber had to prove that it was false by a preponderance of evidence, basically prove there is at least a 51% chance that it's untrue. This came up in the deflategate case against Tom Brady. The phrase they use is "more likely than not" but I hesitate to use that because whenever that was brought up here everyone would misquote it as "more than likely" which obviously means something else entirely and led everyone to inaccurate conclusions.

There had to be some specific part of his quote that ended up being untrue, like maybe they didn't plan it with their lawyer or maybe her friends weren't involved, but I just really want to know what specific thing he got wrong.

Regardless, justice ftw. An iota of faith has been restored in our justice system, I'm very happy we actually got the right result. Amber is disgusting, Johnny deserves this massive victory.