Johnny Depp’s team is denied dismissal of Amber Heard’s US$100mil counterclaim

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard met while making the 2011 movie 'The Rum Diary'. Photos: Reuters/AFP

Johnny Depp’s legal team was unsuccessful in an attempt to get Amber Heard’s US$100mil counterclaim dismissed Tuesday (May 24) as Heard’s lawyers rested their case in the defamation trial.

Judge Penney Azcarate said at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Virginia that it’s not her role “to measure the veracity or weight of the evidence” after lawyers for Depp and Heard both presented arguments about the countersuit.