Bombshell Court Filing: Depp-Heard Trial May Need to Be Redone Due to 'Deeply Troubling' Juror Error

The possibility that “Depp-Heard II” could be playing at a Virginia courtroom has been raised in a legal filing.

The filing, published by Deadline, says a mistrial should be declared because someone other than a juror who had been selected for the trial was actually part of the jury.

Amid redactions that black out the names of those involved, the filing says that a 77-year-old man living at a certain address had been selected. However, the filing said, a 52-year-old man who lives at that same address is in fact the one who served as a juror during the trial.

The two individuals have the same last name, the filing said.

“Juror No. 15 was not the individual summoned for jury duty on April 11, 2022, and therefore was not part of the jury panel and could not have properly served on the jury at this trial. Therefore, a mistrial should be declared and a new trial ordered,” the filing said.

The filing supplements a claim filed earlier this month that questioned whether one person on the jury was not among those elected, as Deadline has reported.  The earlier filing offered a wide range of objections to the verdict in the trial, which resulted in a legal victory for actor Johnny Depp