Is Amber Heard going to be in prison?

Experts informed reporters that the chances of Amber Heard going to prison as a result of the defamation action initiated against her by her ex-husband Johnny Depp are slim.

“You don’t go to jail as a result of a civil finding,” said Media Law Resource Center First Amendment attorney George Freeman. “The only way what happened in Virginia so far might lead to her going to jail is if she’s accused and convicted of perjury, which hasn’t been officially charged and appears unlikely.”

Freeman said he had never seen a person charged with perjury in a civil matter in his more than four decades as a First Amendment lawyer.

Some critics have called Heard’s evidence in Virginia’s Fairfax County Circuit Court inauthentic because of his exaggerated facial gestures and tears.

 

Depp, 58, is suing Heard, 36, for a Washington Post op-ed she wrote in which she identified herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.”

 

The claims against Depp, the “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor, are unfounded and have wrecked his reputation and career. Heard, on the other hand, is suing him for $100 million, alleging that he defamed her by calling her assault claims a fake.

 

Experts told reporters that even if the jury finds it in Depp’s favor, it doesn’t mean Heard lied.

Is Amber Heard going to be in prison?

On social media this week, there were reports that Heard was headed to prison. The actress, on the other hand, has not been sentenced and will not be going to jail.

Heard will only be held accountable for damages if the jury finds that Depp’s defamation charges over a piece she authored in which she claimed she was a victim of domestic abuse have merit.

Heard will not go to jail because her case is a civil one rather than a criminal one.