By Holly Honderich
BBC News, Washington
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Image caption, Amber Heard took the stand earlier in the trial
Amber Heard’s crew is now now not going to name Johnny Depp to the stand, a source shut to Ms Heard acknowledged, a strategic U-turn in the closing days of the high-profile trial.
Ms Heard’s crew had planned to name Mr Depp for additional questioning on Monday, but changed route without explanation at noon.
Mr Depp, 58, sued his ex-wife for $50m (£40m) for a column she wrote in which she claimed to be a victim of domestic abuse. Ms Heard, 36, has countersued.
The case is anticipated to wrap this week.
British supermodel Kate Moss, a historic female friend of Mr Depp, is amongst witnesses anticipated to prefer the stand in the final days of the defamation trial.
On Monday, the court in Fairfax, Virginia, heard from several witnesses known as by Ms Heard’s crew, including psychologist David Spiegel.
Dr Spiegel testified that Mr Depp “has behaviours that are in step with someone that both has substance utilize disorder as well to behaviours of someone who is a perpetrator of intimate accomplice violence”.
About 40-60% of intimate accomplice violence is committed under the affect of alcohol or substance utilize considerations, Dr Spiegel instructed jurors.
Mr Depp’s lawyers sought to undermine this testimony on low-examination, highlighting that Dr Spiegel had reached his conclusions without any state contact with Mr Depp.
Also on Monday, a hand surgeon testified it became as soon as now now not likely that Mr Depp’s finger became as soon as nick in the course of a fight with Ms Heard in Australia in the technique that he has described.
Mr Depp has acknowledged the tip of his middle finger became as soon as severed when Ms Heard threw a vodka bottle at him.
The jury saw graphic images of Mr Depp’s injured finger as Dr Richard Moore acknowledged that the damage became as soon as extra in step with being pinched by a closing door.
Dr Moore did now now not bodily behold Mr Depp at the time of the damage.
Ms Heard’s crew is anticipated to relaxation its case early this week earlier than Mr Depp’s crew takes its last chance to sway the jury.
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Image caption, Kate Moss and Johnny Depp in Cannes in 1998
The testimony from the two clinical clinical doctors on Monday became as soon as appropriate basically the latest in a long line of competing expert testimony. One psychologist, known as by Mr Depp’s crew, testified that Ms Heard suffers from two personality considerations.
One more, known as by Ms Heard’s crew, rejected this discovering and acknowledged in its build that Ms Heard had post-anxious stress disorder.
Ms Heard and Mr Depp devour each and every testified in the weeks-long fight, offering starkly varied accounts of their short, tempestuous marriage.
Ms Heard claimed Mr Depp became as soon as inclined to alcohol and drug binges, without snort attributable to emotions of jealousy and in most cases consumed by violent rages.
Mr Depp, in turn, alleged he became as soon as the victim of Ms Heard’s volatile moods, telling jurors he mechanically continued her verbal, emotional and bodily abuse.