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A Virginia judge said actress Amber Heard must also turn over a range of documents related to claims that she was the victim of domestic violence.
Amber Heard and Johnny Depp arrive at the premiere of Depp’s film “Black Mass” at the London film festival in 2015. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, File)
FAIRFAX, Va. (CN) Johnny Depp’s lawsuit accusing his ex-wife Amber Heard of defamation enters its third year in court with a ruling that the actress must turn over drafts of an editorial she published in The Washington Post.
Fairfax County Circuit Court Chief Judge Penney S. Azcarate ruled from the bench Friday that Heard must also turn over certain communications with partners and associates, along with a passel of other documents related to claims that she was the victim of domestic violence.
Black Firefighter Released from Prison After Evidence Surfaces Showing Virginia Officer Lied About Every Single Reason for Traffic Stop
A former Black firefighter was released from prison on Wednesday after a Fairfax County Circuit Court overturned his 2019 conviction on drug and gun charges. The judge wrote in the decision that the case had been built on “false statements.”
Judge Daniel Ortiz threw out the conviction on Tuesday, April 20, writing, “Freitag’s false statements undermined judicial integrity in the public’s eyes and left a man sitting in prison for almost two years.”
Elon Wilson, 26, was a respected member of the Washington D.C. fire department with no criminal rerecord when he was pulled over by former Fairfax County police officer Jonathan Freitag in April 2018. He was released from Nottoway Work Center in southern Virginia on Wednesday, The Washington Post reported.
Fairfax County Commonwealth s Attorney Steve Descano obtained indictments last year against Amaya and Vinyard in the 2017 shooting death of Bijan Ghaisar, 25, of McLean, after a stop-and-go chase on the George Washington Memorial Parkway near the nation s capital.
Descano indicted the pair after the Justice Department opted against filing criminal charges. The federal investigation of the shooting languished for years, and prompted accusations from Ghaisar s family and numerous elected officials that federal authorities were stonewalling.
Federal authorities declined to cooperate in the local grand jury s investigation.
The officers sought to have the case removed from state jurisdiction, citing their status as federal officers. They argued that they have immunity from state prosecution under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution because they were acting as federal officers when the shooting happened.
DC firefighter released from prison after evidence shows officer lied I’m proud that we’re one step closer to having him back in the community.
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A former D.C. firefighter who spent more than 20 months in prison on gun and drug charges has been released after the arresting officer was accused of lying.
Elon Wilson is officially a free man after a Fairfax County Circuit Court judge overturned his 2019 conviction, saying evidence in the case revealed the incident was racially motivated and built on lies from former police officer
Jonathan Freitag.
Freitag reportedly pulled over Wilson in 2018, claiming he “drove over the solid line” and had “very dark-tinted windows.” Police found drugs and a gun in the car and Wilson was ultimately sentenced to three years in prison. Freitag later admitted that Wilson never went over the yellow line and the ex-cop never tested the window tint,