Amber Heard's legal team said that the inclusion of the erroneous juror violated her due process rights and asked the judge to declare a mistrial.
and ordered to pay the actor millions of dollars, Amber Heard has alleged that one of the jurors was not actually the person summoned to be on the jury. Heard's legal team said that the inclusion of the erroneous juror violated her due process rights and asked the judge to declare a mistrial. when asking the judge to throw out the verdict last week.
The document did not provide any reason for why this allegedly occurred or say how the situation was uncovered. "Those safeguards are in place and relied upon by the parties to verify the identity of the correct juror, to ensure due process and a fair trial for all litigants," the document said."When these safeguards are circumvented or not followed, as appears to be the case here, the right to a jury trial and due process are undermined and compromised."