The Thing on the Wall

On the first of June, Johnny Depp won his deformation trial. I don't have any hard feelings towards Johnny or Amber, I don't even know them. There is one thing I noticed when I watched the court trial. There was a thing on the wall behind the witness stand. Every time I saw a witness being cross examined, I saw that thing on the wall. 

To me it looked like a thermostat controller, a box that is used to control to the heating and air-conditioning; I'm not saying that's what it is, just saying that is what it looked like. It could have been lots of things, a microphone, security sensor, camera, speaker, something like that. I don't know what it was but I kept looking at it, like it was challenging me to work out what it was. I think I will never know what that thing was. 

Johnny Depp Deformation Trial

I learned the actor called Johnny Depp had taken his ex wife to court because she claimed he was an abusive husband. Her claims caused his acting work to be stopped. Film makers are afraid to shoot actors and actresses with a bad reputation because their bad image can cause the film to fail. 

He claimed that she was actually the one that was abusive and even managed to gather some evidence to prove it. He had audio recordings of her admitting she hit him. He also claims that she caused the tip of his finger to be severed when she threw a bottle at him; he used his severed finger to write notes on the cupboard doors to himself in blood,  you could say he had some pen-t up frustration. Perhaps he should take up blogging. 

It seems more common now for people to go to court to settle their problems. People look up to the authorities as a kind of parent figure that can step in and resolve their grievances. 

High profile Court

I'm not a young man and I am not old, you could call me a mature adult, somewhere between youth and middle age. I'm old enough and wise enough to know it is wrong to have an instant reaction to the outcome of a high profile court case. The most recent one is the Kyle Rittenhouse case. 

When I was young I saw people mocking the elderly lady for suing McDonald's for a million dollars because she burnt herself with coffee. Later in life I learned that she didn't Sue McDonald's for a million dollars, she sued for the cost of her skin graft surgery because the drink was over 90°c and it caused third degree burns . Regulations were in place to protect people from third degree burns and the thermostat on the coffee machine was broken so it was belching out hot coffee at close to boiling point. Anyway the judge wanted to teach McDonald's a lesson so he increased the compensation charge. You see how the outcome sounds different when you know all the facts. The same is true of the OJ Simpson case, we later found out that someone already was trying to kill his wife and the gloves used when the gun was fired was too small for OJ Simpson's hands and there was countless other facts that the jury saw that wasn't public at the time.