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  "description": "The defense formally rested and Judge Azcarate denied Depp's motion to strike Heard's counterclaims, preserving the Waldman actual-malice question for the jury. Depp's rebuttal opened with Walter Hamada undercutting Heard's Aquaman damages claim, followed by three returning experts — Marks, Spindler, and Bania — jointly dismantling her $45M+ lost-earnings projection as methodologically unsupported; Bania's granular analysis reduced Schnell's 2.7 million tweet dataset to five tweets actually referencing the Waldman statements. Surgeon David Kulber testified that Depp wore a soft plaster splint in March 2015, though cross-examination elicited the concession that his uninjured hand remained fully available. Trailer park owner Morgan Night survived voir dire and a late-disclosure objection to deliver eyewitness testimony of Heard yelling at a cowering Depp during the 2013 Hicksville visit, while rebuttal psychiatrist Richard Shaw challenged Spiegel's opinions as Goldwater Rule violations before his own cross exposed that Depp had twice refused Spiegel's examination requests. Deposition testimony from Jennifer Howell and Children's Hospital designee Candie Davidson-Goldbronn documented Heard's $3.5M CHLA pledge as 93% unfulfilled, and the day closed with defense proffers of excluded hearsay testimony for the appellate record.",
  "path": "/trial/day/21/",
  "publishedAt": "2022-05-24T00:00:00.000Z",
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  "title": "Day 21 — Depp v. Heard",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-08T13:28:18.946Z"
}