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  "description": "Day 20 was dominated by three defense expert witnesses whose testimony was sharply tested on cross-examination. Hand surgeon Dr. Richard Moore opined that the mechanism of Depp's Australia finger injury was inconsistent with the vodka-bottle account, but Vasquez extracted the concession that he could not rule out a vodka bottle as the cause and had excluded key bar-area photographs and Ben King's contrary testimony from his analysis. Psychiatrist Dr. David Spiegel testified on Depp's polysubstance abuse and IPV risk factors, survived a credential challenge over the absence of IPV-specific publications, but faced a combative cross that drew admissions about his Goldwater Rule compliance, a deposition \"idiot\" remark, and a full retraction of his earpiece-as-cognitive-deficit inference. Entertainment expert Kathryn Arnold testified that Depp's career decline predated the op-ed by years and that Waldman's statements caused Heard an estimated $45–50M in projected earnings, while cross-examination challenged her causal methodology and her unfamiliarity with her own comparable actors' careers. Redirect for each witness sought to rehabilitate their core opinions, with Spiegel confirming his conclusions were unchanged and Arnold reinforcing the pre-Waldman Aquaman 2 script receipt as evidence of studio intent.",
  "path": "/trial/day/20/",
  "publishedAt": "2022-05-23T00:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "at://did:plc:vd3vzujxkxsthkswrc2zzupm/site.standard.publication/dvh",
  "title": "Day 20 — Depp v. Heard",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-08T13:28:18.946Z"
}