Johnny Depp has responded to Amber Heard's request for their defamation suit to be declared a mistrial.
Heard's lawyers on Friday filed court documents claiming the actor is entitled to a mistrial "based on newly discovered facts and information that Juror No. 15 was not the individual summoned for jury duty on 11 April 2022."
Depp's legal team has now submitted an opposition requesting that the motion be struck down. In court documents obtained by E! News, Depp's attorneys claim Heard and her legal team were given access to the pre-panel jury list in early April and "had more than enough time before the trial started, and during the six-week trial, when at least two alternates were available, to investigate and discover the alleged 'new' facts."
The documents continued to point out that the juror in question was still "qualified to serve as a juror in Fairfax County and was vetted by the Court and the parties' counsel just as all the other jurors were" at the time of trial.
In addition, Heard's request for a mistrial, filed on 8 July, was submitted seven days past the court's appointed deadline.
The opposition response comes after an early review of Depp's new album, set for release on Friday, claims the Pirates actor refers to Heard without directly naming her in one of the two original songs, which Depp wrote.