The potentially arbitrary nature of the outcome in court makes the PR struggle to preserve public loyalty all the more crucial.
If Depp is not utterly exonerated, his Hollywood image as a rakish funster will be hard to maintain.
The wider public defence of Depp is being conducted by his American lawyer Adam Waldman.
Evidence in the four-week trial at the Royal Courts of Justice in The Strand has now all been laid before the judge.
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