Criminal Lawyer Reacts to Amber Heard's Attorney's Post-Verdict Shenanigans on Talk Shows 

With her statements, she is also continuing the insinuation that ONLY women are abuse victims. It is driving me insane with her narrative

For someone who loved throwing the "15 minutes of fame" accusation at witnesses she sure is making the most of her own 15 minutes.

The moment that made me 1000% confident in Depp being innocent was the back and forth with Camille regarding why Amber took pictures of Johnny sleeping and sent them to friends. Camille asked why Amber isn't afraid if Johnny found out she sent the pictures to friends and basically mocking him. She replied "Why would I be?". If you're abused as badly as she claims, you are terrified of making your abuser mad. That was a mic drop moment against her own case to me.

No judge would ever have rejected medical records or pictures of a broken nose/real bruises.

I'm an attorney and would never go onto a talk show afterwards, especially not to go on and throw blame at everyone and everything else. This lady is embarrassing.

I think what she’s doing is very disrespectful to the men and women on the jury who gave up 6 weeks of their lives for this trial! Can she get in trouble for spewing all this crap?!

This is downright abusive. She lost because she had no witnesses, filed no police reports, had no evidence of physical abuse. To suggest that this is a setback for women is ludicrous. You don't accuse people when you haven't any evidence to back up your accusations. It is incredibly helpful.

As an older feminist, "A step back for women is horse s@i%! Their BS case is what sets back women's rights.

She’s so full of it and she is constantly deflecting. Elaine made herself look so horrible.

I was empathic to Elaine the whole trial because she looked so haggard and stressed. Then she went and publicly opened her mouth and any semblance of empathy I had for her vanished. She's just like her client: zero accountability for herself/gaslighting/deflection/blame shifting. They deserve each other.

I disagree that people thought they were both lying. She gave that impression, he seemed candid and honest.

I’ve never seen a lawyer go on a public smear campaign like this. She played dirty the whole trial and now she’s on tv crying foul play?! 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

I used to feel bad for Elaine but… I don’t any more. Watching her through this trial, not only her incompetence is vast and incredible but her disrespect is… disgusting. She should be investigated, honestly. This woman is openly mocking Johnny, trying to mimic his speech to make fun of him, and during moments where they are recounting the horrid stuff Amber was alleged to have done, she is sitting there, laughing and snickering about the nasty stuff being said right along amber’s side. She is a perfect example of a lawyer you don’t want.

Her client’s “mountain of evidence” was a mountain of lies that was bulldozed by the truth. As a survivor of DV and SA I am glad that JUSTICE was done.

As a follow up, after Elaine went on these shows and disgraced herself by attacking the judge and jury, she attended the hearing to confirm the verdict and tried to suck up to the judge. Did she really think Judge Ascarate would be her best friend after she accused her of what amounts to judicial misconduct?

After months of this trial being over, I am still laughing out loud at your analysis. So 100% spot on. I happened to have a broken ankle and had time to watch every minute of testimony. You call it like it is. Thank you Mr. Rivers

"It was the 1st time that victim of domestic violence had to testify on live TV!" Exactly, and HE did a great job!

She is the perfect attorney for Heard, both are delusional.

Amber Heard not only said on the witness stand in Fairfax County, Virginia about the op ed 'that it was about him (Johnny Depp) she also said 'that is why I wrote it.' Attorney Camille Vasquez drilled Amber Heard until she finally admitted it openly in court. What more do you want the jury to decide on?

It's amazing how, via her lies, she places herself in a situation where TV hosts manage to interrogate her. That shows how clueless she is.

“This is a major setback for women” “Bullshit.” I snorted so hard at that 🤣🤣🤣

This is not a set back. Thanks to Amber we now have a better understanding what is real vs what is fake. So for those who actually have been abused, you will be heard.

"Suppressed evidence" is another way of saying that pictures of her "injuries" were developed too late and were manufactured too poorly by her.

Host: “do you feel like you made any mistakes along the way, did Amber make any mistakes on the stand?” Elaine: well, Amber was getting death threats..people saying they were going to do harm to her baby” what the heck, she completely didn’t answer his question…not even a little bit. Makes Elaine look foolish. And, worst of all she keeps calling JD a [blank] beater. You can see no one here on the show believes anything she is saying. Avoiding the questions, lying, defaming JD on live television after JD won the case!?!? Mind blowing. She needs to go away and stop talking. Unprofessional and she risk’s no one wanting her to represent them. Shame

As someone who has worked in the legal field for 30+ years, I can't believe how low this lawyer has stooped. She's just regurgitating her client's lies. It's sad.

"She lost because it was Johnny Depp," When all these allegations first came out, EVERYONE was on Amber's side. When the trial started, everyone switched to Johnny because it was so obvious she was lying.

Amber took photos of mirrors and lampshades but no photos of any injuries. This was after she claimed to be several ab used and SA, yet just pics of his painting on the furniture.

I can’t believe she says what about all the women without evidence. That is a crazy thing to say.

I deeply resent Elaine saying the jury would disobey their instructions or orders from the judge. I sat on three juries and we obeyed the rules. Elaine is blaming everyone except Amber who was fake and proven to be lying, and herself who did a horrible job as an attorney.

When you’ve got a script you stick with it. Even a terribly bad script. So much for hoping we wouldn’t be exposed to Elaine’s weirdness anymore. Johnny won because he spoke the truth.

As a women of domestic abuse- I'm insulted by both these women and their need to apologize.

My apologies for just reading this so late but what SHE did has made it more difficult for the true abused women out in the world to be believed... Trying to fool the world she was abused should be punishable... 😡

"It's everyone's fault but mine." Isn't it interesting that Amber chose THIS lawyer who, like Amber herself, also doesn't point a finger back at herself!!

I find it astounding that a lawyer representing a client who lost deformation for calling someone an abuser would then go on a national press tour defaming the person who won the case.

It'd be hilarious if Amber did appeal and the next jury found her guilty for all 50 million dollars in damages.

Elaine is doing the same thing Amber did which hurts her (and Amber's) credibility. That is taking zero responsibility. Everything is everyone else's fault. Also both Elaine and Amber seem to really like to smudge the truth. Saying that the 2 court cases are the same when they are completely different cases and in different countries.

"Look at all the women that have no evidence". This coming from a lawyer, arguing that evidence should not be required to convict someone. Amazing.

I don’t understand how she can accuse the jury of cheating with zero evidence and not face some sort of professional ramifications.

The look on her face when the interviewer asked her about any mistakes that SHE made during the trial is priceless to me. AH got what she deserved in this trial. Maybe next time she won't be overly dramatic with details that do not matter.

ALL of the comments that I've read so far on this post are so enlightening and well-said. This is so refreshing for me. Bravo everyone

Why Amber lost according to Elaine Bredehof: -It's the judges fault for suppressing evidence and allowing cameras. -It's the jury's fault because there is no way they didn't go on social media -It's Johnny's fault for being famous. -It's Johnny's Lawyer's faults for not understanding how domestic violence works -It's Johnny's witnesses' fault for lying for 15 minutes of fame -It's social medias fault for being blinded by Johnny's stardom -misogyny against female abuse victims -the gallery full of Depp fans -demonization of Amber Things It's not because of 🙄: -Amber getting caught lying multiple times on the stand and then lying to cover the lies, which calls into question everything else -Amber admitting on tape, multiple times and occasions, how she hit him and started physical fights -Amber falsifying photos, staging photos and lying about lighting on alledged pictures of her injuries, and saying identical photos were 2 different ones -Amber submitting photos of the same wine stain for 2 incidents -The fact she outlined some of the worst abuse that any of us, even victims have heard, yet the photos don't show the type of injuries you would reasonably expect to go with the stories -All the witnesses that back up Johnny's version of events INCLUDING THE POLICE -Amber's threats to go public with domestic abuse charges on 5/27 IN WRITING, if she didn't get the penthouses rent and utility free and 50k a month, and her going through with it and calling the press. This included the penthouses of her friends, the only first hand witnesses, who thereby had something to gain. -Amber's miraculous healing and excuse that she was wearing makeup. -Amber's tearless crying -Amber's smirking during times that recordings were played where she was abusing him, reveling in his pain and the audacity to tell the court she wasn't doing that -Her stories changing and new allegations coming out -The fact she said she was all sliced up by glass but didn't submit pictures of scarring. -the fact she documented evidence of property damage, and drug usage but not injuries. (You're right. MOST women don't document but Amber DID document/ record etc) -actual police officers collaborating that there weren't injuries. -Her walking in on Johnny (clearly she wasn't even home), slamming cabinets because his mother died and his employees stole millions, trying to make it about abusing her, smirking for the camera and letting out an I got you laugh, editing the video and releasing it while lying about releasing it when she's the only one who could have. -she went from "I didn't even write the op Ed" to "It's not about Johnny, only Johnny is making it about Johnny", to "I wrote it because he is a powerful man" over the course of the trial, condemning herself by her changing statements and literal admission of guilt. -SHE CUT OFF HIS FINGER -When referring on tape to the incident where she claimed on the stand that he was trying to stop her escaping, she mentions how he was hiding in the bathroom -In tapes she admitted he was the one who wanted to leave when things got physical and that he wasn't a real man for doing that -she told him that nobody would believe him because he is a man, then tried to convince the jury she meant something else. -her exaggerating her PTSD symptoms for testing to the point she scored higher than 98% of sufferers, even COMBAT VETS, yet showing no signs as she recounted everything and rolling her eyes and getting snarky under Camilles pressure during the second cross. -her on tape trying to stop Johnny from going into the house,and her claiming on the stand that he was going in to do drugs, even after it was shown he was just trying to visit with his daughter -Johnny being the voice of reason in most tapes despite her craziness -her demeanor during her deposition -there is no way that dog pooped that big, no matter his stomach issues because it's clearly solid -her refusal to admit any wrong even when cornered with the truth -the lack of meta data, the refusal to turn over actual devices despite court orders, and that photos were run through a photo editor -when she claimed she wouldn't know how to release something to the press (even though we knew she had) and then later bragging if she wanted to release something to the press she would have done a far better job. -her showing up at the hotel, breaking her own order of protection -your team literally talking about what was trending on social media -the condition of his hand during the incident on the stairs, the fact according to Whitney, she was facing Amber, the threat, (she wouldn't have turned her back on the threat), and how would she have been pushed down the stairs if he was behind her, since he hit her on the back and how their story doesn't match, and his witnesses testimony is different. -the photo of her arm after he "punched her in the face repeatedly with rings on" where you can see her face is fine and she only documented the arm. -everyone is lying and committing perjury except her even as she is caught lying and committing perjury. It's her only answer to ALL the witnesses against her. -her history of domestic violence charges -Johnny never admitting abuse on tape and Amber never accusing him, even when talking about the violence in the relationship And much, much more. #JusticeForJohnnyDepp #elainebredehoft #AmberHeardIsALiar

I thought this "attorney" was stupid during the trial, now she's going around proving it. She's a terrible attorney.

She set back the womans movement, not him. Every lie made it that much more difficult for any victim man or woman. As much as I loved Johnny, I went into the trial with an open mind. I am a victim of DV. I watched the trial with other DV victims and we all were appalled with her lies. We met after the days testimony and some of us just cried out of frustration. She made our experiences meaningless.

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Her lies were more harmful to all DV victims than the verdict will ever be.

This is not about “setting women back”…this is about Justice for VICTIMS regardless or if they’re women or not

The thing that got to me, having been a victim of dv, is her saying "but i love him", the "rape acting", no tears, she was completely acting and not very well either! Elaine was a total farce as an attorney but she had a farce of a client! I truly never doubted Johnny, believed in him the entire time. His personality is not violence it is compassion.

The way the Depp team approached this was to kick your ass! I just love this guy

I was shocked when I heard Elaine Bredehoft’s statements post-trial and think this brought her and her legal team into disrepute. It was also a huge insult to the court, jury and Virginia legal system. I am more convinced now that Amber should be charged with perjury and Elaine interviewed for making prejudicial comments tantamount to defamation herself. Basically as Bruce says, Elaine is blaming everyone but herself. Disgusting...

The jury didn't "side with Johnny" - they found amber guilty of defamation, not the same thing.

How does her going on talk shows and still saying what they said before the trial not count as defamation again?

you already know all the people in the room didn’t believe a word out of her mouth

I never thought a 6 million dollar lawyer can be THAT incompetent. It is ASTONISHING!

As a lawyer, I believe that going on talk shows like this is HELLA unprofessional.

I laughed all the way through this. I believe it was months later when Elaine "pledged" her help to AH if needed... And there were NO death to the witch signs, by the way, although there were alpacas dressed as pirates.

I love how Bruce stopped the video and said,” Bullshit!” 😂😂😂

Amber's attorney is exactly like Amber. They push off their mistakes on someone else. It's never their doing...it's someone else's fault.

It’s good that women without evidence can’t just go around and get people punished. How can she sit there and try to turn that into a bad thing?

JD's lawyers petitioned several times for third party disclosure and the judge chose to deny that. JD really was denied due process in the UK - And she selectively chose what to hand over what she did disclose. Elaine doesn't need to review her closing. She needs to review her opening statement to the jury. She was embarrassingly inept from the beginning. I would like to know what her grounds for appeal are - you cannot appeal just because you don't like the verdict.

Elaine is doing damage control. Not for Miss Heard but for her own law firm, such a comprehensive loss is devastating for your career and your firm

As a DV survivor that literally was fighting for my life - I am infuriated by this. She most certainly doesn't speak for me. And even in the honeymoon phase I knew better than to buy my ex a KNIFE. What a load of BS. Amber is an embarrassment! She set us back! Not the verdict. Justice was served.

Her doing interviews is hilarious after the 15 min. Of fame claims, she clearly needs more screen time.

I will never forget how she started stumbling over her words and said “judge I’m really trying here” that was just embarrassing. She needs to just stop… She needs to stop bringing up the UK case too. I’m sure she lied through her teeth there too

"But she's famous too!" "But you have to remember it's a tale of two trials." Great response to that point, Elaine. You should be a lawyer with such argumentation skills. Just change the subject when your words are rebutted!

Amber saying " I'm even more disappointed with what this verdict means for other women" infuriates me. As a real victim of domestic violence and SA, this woman DOES NOT speak for me! She is the one who has set women back by making it harder for women to be believed. Her "mountain of evidence" proved to be a pack of lies. She cried wolf for personal gain and out of sheer malice and vindictiveness, and it came back to bite her. Elaine is making a fool of herself by continuing to peddle the lies and blame everyone but Amber and her legal team. Amber admitted on the stand that the op-ed was about Johnny Depp and was done purposely. Leave it at that!

The court took Heards claims extremely seriously. However when her claims were scrutinised she was found to be a lying.

I love Bruce Rivers and I love his French. Bruce had me laughing thru this whole video. You are the best Brucr🥰🥰

The jury doesn’t need social media because they have the first class seats. The trial happened in front of them! They have everything they need inside that courtroom…. To be honest, I feel bad for those jury because some people keep making them look bad for their decisions. God bless those jury 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

The fact she lied for 6 years about giving away her divorce settlement to charity is despicable and I hope the High Court in London throw out the 2020 verdict and have her charged with perjury.

She approaches this interview the same way she approached the case… Making claims without a shred of evidence. How disrespectful to the jurors.

"I redo my closings 100 times afterwards" how is she charging millions of dollars to defend clients? This statement alone makes me not even want to hire her if she charged $0

Some simply cannot take defeat. I wonder if this lawyer received trophies for every thing she did. LOL

As a woman and survivor of abuse this makes me physically sick. They are the ones setting us back and how dare they use our trauma for their own gain? Disgusting! I always thought Elaine was just a lawyer doing her job but this??? She had no obligation to do this!

We don't believe her because she is obviously lying. I was neutral at the start of the trial. I support victims. AH is not one. She is the abuser.

Throughout the trial, I got the impression that AH is the sort of person who Can Never Be Wrong, and will do all sorts of mental gymnastics to believe everyone else is the bad guy. Evidently at least one of her lawyers is the same way.

I discovered this channel due to the Depp/Heard defamation case. Bruce Rivers' analysis is excellent and has made me interested in all his other posts!

She’s blaming everyone but her lying client and herself 😂 what an embarrassment.

During the trial I felt bad for Elaine that Amber was probably feeding her lies too. These interviews make it look like Elaine and Amber are cut from the same cloth. All my sympathy for Elaine is out the window.

Don’t you guys just love it, when Bruce will call someone out saying “BS?!” I love that.

I’m confused here, how did the UK trial prove sexual abuse when she never even went to a doctor, she said she took sleeping pills and went to bed after her alleged abuse.

Herds Lawyer was foolish to take on a case with so little physical evidence. And as we learned during the trial much of what was presented had been tinkered with, manufactured or just didn't exist.

I can't believe she is saying all this crap, like it's the truth! She is to much. This is a win for all victims of domestic violence. Abusers Never admit their guilt and apparently neither does this foul attorney. Thank you Bruce !! I appreciate your expertise.

I love this guy he’s spot on

The simplicity of; “Major setback for Women” “Bullshit.” Fantastic 😂👌🏻

I love the fact that even people on social media tried to defend Elaine, saying stuff like: "she did her best, Amber is just an awful person who even lied to her attorney's." but that interview showed what a (my opinion) terrible attorney and terrible person Elaine is

After the evidence that was presented, I cannot see how anyone could still believe that Ms Heard is the victim here.

I am a court interpreter, and spent 20 plus years in the courtrooms interpreting full trials, including a few death penalty trials. I've had the chance to discern good from bad lawyers. If I ever had a problem, I would not touch this woman with a 10 foot pole. She is a charlatan, she is not convinced of what she is saying (that comes across very clearly), she does not even sound competent when she examines and cross-examines. Also, I have noticed her alignment with her client in the way they try to wag the dog so they distract us from the issues. These are trumpian tactics at best, and very poorly wielded. If she ever was a good lawyer, her reputation is gone (but I doubt she is a good lawyer from what I've seen, and I have been in trials with incredible lawyers).

it's amazing when a case is so transparent that both seasoned lawyers and laymen alike know in their bones who's telling the truth practically from day 1

Tremaine was 100% correct when he said she was searching for her 15 minutes of Fame. She wasted no time making her rounds on the morning TV shows trying to save face.

I assumed that Amber Heard was the victim and I watched the court proceedings live (as much as I could because Im in Australia- I watched from 9pm -1am, in the last two weeks) and I was STUNNED!!! Her lies, her manipluations and her obvious abusive behaviour has truly made me reexamine my assumptions about female abusers. I find anyone I know who has either not watched the court proceedings and /or got their news from TV has the opinion that AH is innocent. It has truly made my head spin! I think this is a great time for us all to focus on EVIDENCE not gender, and hold pople accountable for their actions. JD is not exactly 'innocent' of his actions but he did own up to them and there is no evidence that he was a perpetrator. I am gald justice prevailed!

Mr.Rivers, I am a first time viewer and just wanted to say, I love your commentary and I agree 100% with everything you have said!!

My dog stepped on a bee 🐝 Johnny is free from thee! 👏😂 It took me a while to get here, but I'm loving this channel and this series. ❤ No bs just reality. TY

Life is dirty. That's the way Heard is going. Depp is going class and moving on. That's a winning approach, in my opinion.

Her client failed to follow a court order to turn over all of her devices and metadata. Umbridge talking about suppressed evidence in laughable. Her asking Johnny's witnesses if they are just grabbing their 15 minutes of fame and then going on the talk show circuit made me roll my eyes so hard that I now have eye strain. And how dare her accuse the judge and jury of shirking their duties. I've never seen a lawyer blame the jury like this. All those women (and men) out there saw Amber for the abuser that she is.

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Depp's lawyers sparkled with confidence, competence, and charisma. This Elaine creature stumbled from the beginning and thanks to her, thousands of observers who were neutral at the outset, made up their minds not to be on her team.

Elaine is blaming the jury, the judge, Johnny, Johnny's lawyers... everyone but Amber. This woman is literally going on a Johnny Depp defamation tour. What a sore loser.

I am understanding now why Elaine took on Amber's case. Neither believe they did anything wrong, and everything is everyone else's fault. They share the same brain!

Thank you sir! This was awesome.

Excellent breakdown Mr. Rivers.