He's not the only clown in Amber Heard's legal team. Don't forget the laywer grilling the psychiatrist on... *checks notes* store-bought muffins she shared with her client in the office.
The Chat of the lawyer reaction stream I'm following has taken to calling her Umbridge.
She was terrible from the start. The lawyer had real problems with her from the start. Rotten born was actually doing really well in opening statements and day 1 of cross-examination of Depp, but in day 2 he apparently lost the plot of what he was doing.
Like the lawyer spent time after day 1 praising his strategy. And then day 2 he flushed all the good ground he got down the toilet. Combined with all the other stuff.
Kinda makes you wonder if he was just super well prepped on day 1, or if he was instructed to switch tactics by the others because they didn't realise he had been the most competent part of the defence up until that point.
Edit: To expand on what I mean, on Day 1 Rottenborn hyperfocused on the actual article that JD is suing AH over. The OP ED that was published that basically said he was an abuser, but did not use his name. We have actually had someone testify that it was originally going to refer to him by name but AH was talked out of it.
Rottenborn hyperfocused on the article and nothing else in Day 1. Basically dismissing everything else as irrelevant, because at the simplest level, this is a civil defamation case about that article and what resulted from it, it is not seeking criminal proceedings over abuse allegations. Because at the end of the day, if the Jury says that article is not defamatory, then JD loses his case, no matter what else comes out over the course of the trial.
Day 2, he completely abandoned that, and started a full campaign and attack on JD's entire interpretation of events, over the fact he has problems with alcohol and drug abuse. Basically started going into a shit slinging match, saying that because you are drunk and on drugs all the time, you are obviously an abuser and your testimony cannot be trusted because your memory was impaired.
The lawyer I watch pointed out the text messages as a mistake. Not that he introduced them, but that he introduced so many of them. It was their opinion, that a few of these text messages would be shocking and could paint JD in a very bad light, but introducing so many of them, instead gives to the jury the idea that this is just how JD talks. He talks in these wish washy, hyperbolic ways, with sentences filled with metaphor, and all this absolute deluge of texts does is show just that. This is just how he talks.
