Kyle Rittenhouse believes he has a valid basis to invoke Johnny Depp-Amber Heard in his own legal battle. Experts say it’s a serious stretch.
that making claims against media organizations or people offering opinionated commentary on news events is much different than suing someone for defamation in a so-called he said/she said case,“For someone like Kyle Rittenhouse — where at this point, at least, the video is known, the narrative is known — how could someone possibly be confused as to what happened? People will watch that same video and apply whatever motivated reasoning they have to it,” Novack says.
“[Rittenhouse] wants to say he was exonerated, right? And that’s not technically true. He was found not guilty by virtue of reasonable doubt. And reasonable doubt is in the eye of the beholder,” Novack says. “The jury in his case could have felt it was 90 percent likely that he had the requisite mental state, intent to harm, but nonetheless they felt that the prosecution’s case wasn’t a slam dunk. We can all watch the video. Much of his trial was televised.
Joe Cammarata, a Washington lawyer who represented several Bill Cosby accusers in their successful defamation case against the comedian, called the Depp-Heard case a “very, very unique situation.” Novack says Depp, as a plaintiff, also is an outlier in many ways, so viewing his case as a playbook is treacherous.
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