The year 2022 brought an end to pandemic-era virtual courtroom trials and unmasked striking testimonies in high-profile cases across the country.
From the millions of viewers who watched a jury rule that Aquaman star Amber Heard had defamed Johnny Depp to the more than $1 billion owed by Infowars host Alex Jones for false claims about the massacre in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, here are the most striking trials of the year.A jury in June found that Amber Heard defamed ex-husband Johnny Depp and ordered her to pay the actor damages amounting to $15 million.
Heard said that harassment on social media played a part in her decision:"Now I finally have an opportunity to emancipate myself from something I attempted to leave over six years ago and on terms I can agree to."Harvey Weinstein guilty of three charges in rape trial involving Gov. Gavin Newsom's wife
Weinstein is already serving a 23-year sentence after being convicted of committing a criminal sex act and third-degree rape in 2020 and is being held in a detention facility’s medical unit. His defense attorneys have appealed that conviction, and it’s unclear whether he’ll serve his sentence concurrently with that one.Three men found guilty of aiding leaders in a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer were sentenced on Dec. 15.
Whitmer was never physically harmed after undercover FBI agents who were inside the group for months foiled the plot and made arrests in October 2020.In a difficult trial where decorum was out the window, Brooks was eventually sentenced on Nov. 16 to six life terms for killing six and wounding dozens after he drove his vehicle through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, last year.
In November, Jones and InfoWars's parent company Free Speech Systems were ordered to pay an additional $473 million to the victims' families and an FBI agent.
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