Rebecca Lecaroz
Counsel for Johnny Depp who examined damages and photo-forensics experts.
About
Rebecca Lecaroz was an attorney on Johnny Depp’s trial team at Brown Rudnick. She examined entertainment lawyer Richard Marks and damages expert Doug Bania about Depp’s claimed career and reputational harm. After opposing counsel raised negative publicity that predated Amber Heard’s 2018 op-ed, Lecaroz asked Marks to explain why he considered the op-ed different. The court did not permit Marks to tell the jury that the op-ed caused Depp to lose a sixth Pirates film. When Bania’s ability to isolate the op-ed’s effect and his choice of three Q score snapshots were challenged, Lecaroz asked him to clarify his opinion and explain his method.
Lecaroz cross-examined Heard’s sister Whitney Henriquez, who had testified that she saw Depp strike her and Heard during a staircase encounter. Lecaroz questioned Henriquez about her financial ties to Depp, her loyalty to Heard, and earlier texts. Henriquez said the staircase was the only incident she directly witnessed, that she was unsure whether Depp’s contact with her was intentional, and that she sustained no injury.
In rebuttal, Lecaroz examined Marks about challenges to Heard’s projected earnings and Bania about the timing of tweets used to assess the impact of Adam Waldman’s statements. After opposing counsel questioned Marks’s superhero-film experience, she elicited that he had negotiated streaming deals for Chris Pratt and Paul Rudd; Marks also said superhero film was not his genre. Opposing counsel challenged Bania’s exact-phrase searches and Q score comparisons.
Lecaroz also examined digital-forensics expert Bryan Neumeister about disputed injury photographs. He said software labels in their EXIF data indicated that the images had passed through Apple’s Photos app, but acknowledged on cross-examination that the labels alone did not establish visual editing and that he found no affirmative EXIF evidence of modification. On redirect, Lecaroz asked him to distinguish EXIF data from other metadata and explain why he believed the iTunes backup extractions could not establish the photographs’ provenance.
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Evidence From Their Proceedings (22)
Heard Washington Post Op-Ed (Dec 18, 2018)
Amber Heard's opinion piece titled 'I spoke up against sexual violence and faced our culture's wrath. This has to change.' published in the Washington Post on December 18, 2018,…
Catalog entry →Heard's Aquaman Option Contract with Warner Bros.
Amber Heard's test option agreement with Warner Brothers for the role of Mera in the Aquaman franchise, establishing a tiered salary structure across multiple pictures, identified…
Catalog entry →Arnold Expert Damages Analysis / Report
Kathryn Arnold's expert damages testimony and report, including her $45 million projection, comparable actors analysis, and renegotiation opinions, as well as actor salary and…
Catalog entry →ECB Elevator Mezzanine: Whitney Henriquez Fake-Punch Clip
Eastern Columbia Building security footage showing Whitney Henriquez appearing to throw a fake punch toward Amber Heard in the elevator mezzanine area during the week of May 21,…
Catalog entry →Neumeister Demonstrative PX1303 — File Size Discrepancy
A demonstrative exhibit, designated PX1303, showing three versions of the same injury photograph with mismatched file sizes that would not hash or digitally fingerprint…
Catalog entry →Plaintiff's 1296 Q Score Comparison Chart
Plaintiff's Trial Exhibit 1296 — a demonstrative Q score comparison chart using winter 2019 data, showing Amber Heard alongside Jason Momoa, Gal Gadot, Zendaya, Ana de Armas, and…
Catalog entry →Bania Google Trends Chart 2004–2020 (Demonstrative A)
Google Trends chart spanning 2004 to 2020, with seventeen labeled spikes of public interest in Johnny Depp and redlines marking May 2016 and December 18, 2018.
Catalog entry →Bania Hashtag Spike Analysis Chart (Plaintiff's 1294)
A demonstrative chart derived from Schnell's own demonstrative, showing the six largest negative hashtag volume spikes with Waldman statement dates marked alongside them.
Catalog entry →Bania Monthly Hashtag Distribution Chart (Plaintiff's 1293)
A demonstrative summary chart prepared by Doug Bania showing Schnell's Twitter hashtag data by month from January 2018 to June 2021, displaying percentage distribution across…
Catalog entry →Bania Q Score Overlay on Google Trends (Demonstrative C)
Q score data overlaid on the Google Trends chart, showing positive and negative Q scores at three time points: pre-2016, post-2016, and post-op-ed.
Catalog entry →Bania Social Media Follower Comparison Chart (Plaintiff's 1297)
A demonstrative social media follower comparison chart using pre-Waldman data retrieved via the Wayback Machine, covering Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook counts for Heard and…
Catalog entry →Bania Tweet Content Analysis Chart (Plaintiff's 1295)
A demonstrative showing Bania's content analysis of 1.2 million post-April-2020 tweets searched for key Waldman statement phrases, yielding 95 unique tweets and ultimately five…
Catalog entry →DX708 — Defendant's admitted exhibit used to anchor Neumeister's tes
Defendant's admitted exhibit used to anchor Neumeister's testimony to evidence in record before demonstratives could be published.
Catalog entry →Hamada Testimony — WB Option Practices & Heard Chemistry
Walter Hamada's in-court testimony about Warner Brothers' option exercise practices and the chemistry discussion regarding Heard.
Catalog entry →iTunes Backup Extractions of Heard Injury Photos
iTunes backup extractions of Heard's injury photographs, characterized by Neumeister as third-generation backups lacking system-level data. Neumeister relied on this…
Catalog entry →Jessica Kay Deposition — Arnold Comparables
Deposition testimony of Jessica Kay, Heard's agent, stating that four of Arnold's comparable actors were not comparable to Heard.
Catalog entry →Neumeister Demonstrative PX1304 — EXIF 'Photos 3.0' Marker
A demonstrative exhibit, designated PX1304, showing EXIF data excerpts from multiple injury photographs, each bearing the notation "Photos 3.0" in the software field. It served as…
Catalog entry →Neumeister Demonstrative PX1305 — Edited vs. Unedited Video
A video demonstrative exhibit, designated PX1305, showing a side-by-side comparison of a Photos 3.0 edited version and an iOS version of the same injury photograph. It illustrated…
Catalog entry →Neumeister Demonstrative PX1306 — DX-712/713 Color Modification
A video demonstrative exhibit, designated PX1306, comparing Defendant's Exhibits 712 and 713, which Neumeister argued were the same photograph with colors modified in an editing…
Catalog entry →Plaintiff's 1236 (Demonstrative B) — Example historical Google search result screenshot showing t
Example historical Google search result screenshot showing the search interface with date-restricted results for spike point O (November 2004)
Catalog entry →Plaintiff's Exhibit 116 — Floor plan of the rooftop penthouse level of the Eastern Col
Floor plan of the rooftop penthouse level of the Eastern Columbia Building, showing the layout of penthouses 1–5, elevator, pool, and gym.
Catalog entry →Whitney to Depp Texts re 'Point of No Return' (Oct 2 2015)
Text messages sent by Whitney Henriquez to Johnny Depp dated October 2, 2015, in which she wrote that she would stay out of their relationship if she thought it was past the point…
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