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Variety reports:

A Virginia judge on Wednesday denied Amber Heard’s motion for a mistrial in her defamation suit with former husband Johnny Depp, finding no grounds to overturn the jury’s $10 million verdict in Depp’s favor.

Heard had asked the court to nullify the verdict and order a new trial, after discovering that one of the seven jurors did not receive a summons. Heard’s team stated that the jury summons was sent to a person from the same household who is 25 years older than the juror who came to court.

But in her ruling on Wednesday, Judge Penney Azcarate dismissed that argument, finding that Heard’s team should have raised the objection sooner and that there is no evidence of fraud, and no evidence that the mistake biased the trial.

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A judge on Wednesday rejected Amber Heard’s request for the high-profile defamation case involving her and her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, to be declared a mistrial. Heard lost to Depp last month.https://t.co/x44XxG4iJz

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