{"id":2012355,"date":"2023-08-25T17:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T21:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/australian-court-decides-not-to-pursue-perjury-charges-against-amber-heard-in-smuggling-case\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T17:28:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T21:28:53","slug":"australian-court-decides-not-to-pursue-perjury-charges-against-amber-heard-in-smuggling-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/australian-court-decides-not-to-pursue-perjury-charges-against-amber-heard-in-smuggling-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian court drops perjury charges against Amber Heard in smuggling case."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faustralian-court-decides-not-to-pursue-perjury-charges-against-amber-heard-in-smuggling-case%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2012355&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>An \u200bAustralian Court Drops Perjury Charges Against Amber Heard<\/h2>\n<p>An\u200b Australian court has made the\u2064 decision\u2064 not to pursue \u2062perjury charges\u2063 against\u200d actress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/amber-heard-files-notice-of-intent-to-appeal-verdict-in-johnny-depp-defamation-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amber Heard<\/a> following allegations that she lied about \u2063how her and her ex-husband\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/johnny-depp-comeback-in-full-swing-after-landing-multi-year-seven-figure-deal-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Johnny Depp\u2019s<\/a> Yorkshire terriers got into that country in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The Commonwealth Director \u2064of Public Prosecutions\u200d has decided against\u2063 charging the 37-year-old actress with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/amber-heard-is-being-investigated-for-potential-perjury-in-2015-dog-smuggling-incident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">perjury<\/a> for allegedly lying \u2063in 2016\u2062 about being unaware of the nation\u2019s strict animal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-poisoned-the-world-why-is-chinese-covid-propaganda-allowed-on-twitter\/\" title=\"\u2018U.S. Poisoned The World\u2019: Why Is Chinese COVID Propaganda Allowed On Twitter?\">quarantine regulations<\/a>. She brought the then-couple\u2019s dogs Pistol\u200d and \u2062Boo into the country while Depp was filming his fifth movie in the \u201cPirates of the Caribbean\u201d franchise, Australia\u2019s Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, a biosecurity watchdog, said in a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2023\/08\/24\/australian-prosecutors-drop-case-against-amber-heard-over-dogs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Page Six<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Amber Heard has scored a \u2063legal victory as a long-going case against the actress, who was accused of perjury for illegally importing \u200cher \u2064dogs into Australia, has been dropped.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, she brought two pups along \u2064to former\u200b husband Johnny Depp&#8217;s movie set.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/heaMnJNvMM\">https:\/\/t.co\/heaMnJNvMM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYDailyNews\/status\/1694824664978137455?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2015, Heard was accused of breaking \u2063Australia\u2019s quarantine regulations when she did not declare that she was bringing her dogs to the country upon arrival. When\u200d the pups were discovered, the \u201cAquaman\u201d star\u200b was charged with two counts\u2064 of illegally importing the dogs into the country and one count of producing a\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-man-forced-to-give-up-nearly-16000-tesla-shares-after-stealing-covid-19-relief-funds\/\" title=\"Oregon Man Forced To Give Up Nearly 16,000 Tesla Shares After Stealing COVID-19 Relief Funds\">false document<\/a>, a spokesman for the Commonwealth \u200bDepartment of Public Prosecutions told <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/amber-heard-will-not-face-new-charges-over-alleged-illegal-import-of-2-dogs-into-australia-7775516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">People<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/amber-heard-under-foreign-criminal-investigation-in-smuggling-case-told-others-to-lie-to-authorities-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heard<\/a> pleaded guilty\u2064 to providing \u200ba false \u200cimmigration document. A judge sentenced \u2063her to a\u2064 one<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/australian-court-decides-not-to-pursue-perjury-charges-against-amber-heard-in-smuggling-case\/\" title=\"Australian court drops perjury charges against Amber Heard in smuggling case.\">-month good behavior\u2064 bond<\/a>, while the\u200d charges of illegally importing the\u2063 dogs into Australia were dropped, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/australian-prosecutors-drop-case-actor-amber-heard-pet-102473762\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News<\/a> \u200dnoted.<\/p>\n<p>At \u2063the time, Heard\u2019s lawyer denied his client had intended to\u2063 lie\u2062 when she did not declare her \u200ddogs and instead \u200cwas simply jet lagged and \u200dassumed her assistants had \u200dtaken care of the paperwork.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1692980418669000&#038;usg=AOvVaw15MNQZ1U33fOZBroIc4gYb\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>However, during Depp\u2019s London libel trial against The Sun newspaper in 2020, \u200bthe actor and Heard\u2019s former \u2064employee <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/amber-heard-will-not-face-new-charges-over-alleged-illegal-import-of-2-dogs-into-australia-7775516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> the actress \u200dhad known about Australia\u2019s \u200dquarantine rules, ignored them, and put pressure on\u2063 a staff member to take the blame for breaking the laws, the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/australia-amber-heard-yorkshire-terriers-16f94ee9f78884845dad38e433d4114a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The discrepancy in the account of how Heard\u2019s pups got into the country\u2064 caused \u2063prosecutors to look into whether Heard had provided false testimony and lied\u200c about her knowledge of Australia\u2019s laws. The investigation also delved into\u200b whether an employee had falsified a statutory declaration under duress, the AP noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe department collaborated with\u200c agencies, both in Australia \u200dand \u200boverseas, to investigate\u2063 these claims against Ms Heard,\u201d the department said in their statement\u200b to People. \u201cA brief\u200d of evidence was referred\u200b to the Commonwealth Director\u200d of Public \u2062Prosecutions, who has made the decision not to prosecute\u2062 in\u200c this instance having applied \u200cthe Prosecution Policy of the Commonwealth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian court has dropped perjury charges against actress Amber Heard. She was accused of lying about how her and Johnny Depp&#8217;s Yorkshire terriers entered Australia in 2015. The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions has chosen not to pursue the 37-year-old actress for perjury, based on alleged lies from 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":2012356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}