Wayne Dennison

On cross, Hughes conceded that Depp suffered physical and psychological violence at Heard's hands — an admission that cut directly against the defense's victim-only framing.

Day 14 · Cross of Dawn Hughes

Using the witnesses' own admitted test manuals as exhibits, Dennison documented Hughes's departures from standardized administration instructions across every major diagnostic instrument she used, leaving her PTSD diagnosis without a procedurally sound foundation.

Day 23 · Cross of Dawn Hughes

Dennison confronted Schnell with deposition testimony stating the four key hashtags had no connection to Waldman, then established that all four predated Waldman's first statement — some traceable to 2013 — collapsing the causal core of Heard's social-media damages theory.

Day 19 · Recross of Ron Schnell

Dennison read the APA Goldwater Rule aloud and then revealed that Spiegel had called Depp 'an idiot' in deposition, forcing Spiegel into an unsteady contextual explanation while the ethics violation framing lingered before the jury.

Day 20 · Cross of David Spiegel

Dennison pressed Arnold to acknowledge she could not isolate Waldman's statements as the cause of Heard's career losses from the UK trial, pre-existing social-media sentiment, or the defecation story — leaving her $45–50M projection without a defensible causal anchor.

Day 20 · Cross of Kathryn Arnold

Dennison walked Spindler through a two-component methodology culminating in a demonstrative chart showing $40.3M in lost earnings — the concrete damages figure the jury would carry into deliberations on Depp's defamation claims.

Day 13 · Direct of Michael Spindler