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Deadline Hollywood reports:

If there wasn’t enough drama swirling around Johnny Depp’s win over Amber Heard in his multimillion-dollar defamation suit last month, things have turned judicially weird. According to today’s filing, it seems that there are two individuals residing at the same address with, at the very least, “the same last name” — one a 77-year-old individual and another a 52-year-old individual.

The former was the one summoned, but it looks like the latter was the one who showed up. “Thus, the 52-year-old- (redacted) sitting on the jury for six weeks was never summoned for jury duty on April 11 and did not ‘appear in the list,’ as required,” Friday’s damning filing asserts. Not noticed by officers or clerks of the court, the younger individual made it all the way to the jury without apparently ever being asked to produce any ID, or with perhaps fake ID, the filing implies.

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According to the filing, there are two individuals residing at the same address with “the same last name.” One of them is a 77-year old the other a 52-year old. The former was the one being summoned, but it looks like the latter was the one who showed up https://t.co/hNTT8M4evY

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) July 8, 2022