Was Johnny Depp convicted of an assault in the past?
He's been arrested and faced charges for a whole string of assaults over the decades, everything from beating up paps and then gloating about it ("it was worth going to prison to see the look of fear on the little maggot's face"), beating up a crew member on the set of one of the Pirates movies, ordering a disabled female university professor to be handcuffed by his private goons and dragged across the floor so violently that both her shoulders dislocated and her lower body was stripped naked, the violent hotel-trashing fights he had with Kate Moss (smashing up objects in front of a partner is considered a form of DV), all the interviews where he's talked about how he experiences episodes of "hillbilly rage" where a "red mist will descend", multiple interviews bragging about how he BITES people when he's in a rage.
The man is a violent psycho. His own words show it.
The local news reporting at the time had eye witnesses to their physical bust up and while I'm sure perceptions differ depending upon the parties involved, the random witnesses were pretty clear that AH lost it completely and got physical.
Please don't call an unrelated woman a liar purely because you have an agenda to defend a proven wife-beater. It's very strange that little or no evidence of this "local news report" or of these "eyewitnesses" exist now, especially considering Depp used a considerable amount of money and hired a large number of people to trash Amber's reputation online and to have damaging interviews and news reports about himself removed from Google.
But what about Depp losing his finger. Amber changed her story several times.
He didn't lose a finger, just cut/crushed the tip, and it was Depp who changed his story about the finger multiple times not Amber.