But this is someone they feel can commit no wrong, remember, and that’s the only conclusion that must be reached or else everyone they disagree with is clearly a monster. These normal adult jurors are obviously idiots and misogynists because of the conclusion they arrived at. Sounds a bit like throwing a tantrum about…

Sounds like he, and the rest of the jury, followed both the evidence AND went by their instincts in observing her demeanor, which is...y’know, a jury’s job.

Folks that go out of their way to absolve Heard of any wrong-doing and are refusing to respect that the jury felt the case didn’t prove physical abuse are being…

Yeah, that’s not what he said whatsoever. He said they found her unbelievable, and their feelings are valid (feelings shared by, according to this person, male and female jurors), despite her dripping condescension that implied these intelligent grown adults were just too star-struck by Depp to understand what was…

It could very well be true that victims of domestic violence appear scripted and in performance mode and all in all weird. I don’t know that it is, but let’s say it is. In that case her lawyer should have put on an expert witness to that effect once she noticed how strangely her client was acting and how poorly the…

Sure, but I don’t think a couple of quotes pulled from an interview are meant to convey that that was the entire basis of the verdict either.

Her “emotional” response did not seem genuine, that was the problem. Her frequent looking at the jury made it obvious that this was some kind of performance.

Witness credibility is left exclusively to the jury.  Everything counts--not just what’s being said, but how it’s being said.

Yeah I’ve learned that the vast majority of people who can turn on and off the waterworks at will are not generally trustworthy.

Judging witness credibility is the primary job of the factfinder (jury in this case, judge in bench trials).

“I think you might be under the impression that the system we have for meting out justice in American society is a fundamentally good one, and I’m afraid to say that you’d be utterly wrong.”

She’s not a victim... 

There’s nothing unusual about a juror trying to evaluate a witness’s credibility -- that’s a major function of the jury.  The juror here isn’t saying, “Amber Heard was sad, and I don’t like people being sad, so I punished her.”  He’s saying that the way she appeared upset, then suddenly not, over and over again, was…

Except witness testimony and behavior is part of the evidence. It’s why we have live testimony. The jury is able to see how the witness behaves in response to questions.  Body language makes up a large part of human communication, so it’s not to be discounted. If we didn’t think it was important trials would consist…

Making determinations about the credibility of a witness is and always has been a key role for a finder of fact whether that's a judge or a jury, sorry that well-established part of the legal system makes you uncomfortable.

I didn’t get that message based upon the full quote.  It sounded like they thought she was perhaps being untruthful and putting on a performance.

That’s not really fair.  You’ve never had someone’s demeanor be so off-putting that it made you uncomfortable and made that person seem untrustworthy to you?

Easily the most fun movie of that whole year was Knives Out, hell yeah I’m looking forward to this.

Given that I was hearing about how there are only seven stories as far back as middle school English, I think this might be every writer’s thing.

The fact that James Bond movies never have his name in the title, yet still somehow audiences figure out it’s a James Bond movie, has never seemed to have penetrated anyone’s skulls in Hollywood.

I like it, too. But more than that, I love that they relegated “Knives Out” to a series name rather than just numbering them.