dep apologizes to court and jury for some of the language that i'm going to have to use. But unfortunately, you're going to see a lot of documents with language like this. After you said, let's drown her before we burn her, mister dep you said, i will fuck her burnt corpse afterwards, to make sure she is dead. Did i read that right? You certainly did. Is and you wrote that about the really violent, threatening language. It is. And the point of this cross examination is to essentially get these messages on the record, that he said these things. Can you please bring up defendants, exhibit six, three, eight.
This episode contains strong language and details of a sexual assault accusation.
Since a jury ruled in favor of Johnny Depp in his defamation case against his ex-wife Amber Heard, there has been impassioned debate about what exactly the outcome means for the #MeToo movement.
It raises the question: If people being accused of sexual assault can potentially win defamation cases in court, what does that mean for the accused — and the accusers — moving forward?
Guest: Julia Jacobs, a culture reporter for The New York Times.
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