Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard stenographer accuses jurors of ‘dozing off’
While the masses were rapt as Johnny Depp and Amber Heard hashed it out on livestreams
the people in the courtroom were struggling to stay awake.
Judy Bellinger, the court stenographer for the Depp v. Heard defamation trial,
has dropped some bombshell revelations about the contentious six-week courtroom marathon.
There were a few jurors who were dozing off,” Bellinger told the Law & Crime network on Monday
admitting “it was tough” to sit through the many hours of testimony.
Bellinger has also observed that the sleeping jurors were in both the front and back rows,
and they particularly struggled during the video depositions.
she added, detailing the hours of pretaped segments that augmented the already lengthy in-person testimonies on the stand.