Film star's dogged case adjourned in Australia for second time

The legal case that's dogged Johnny Depp's wife over the illegal importation of the couple's poochie pets has been adjourned for a second time.

Depp's wife Amber Heard has yet to face court in Queensland despite a summons to appear as her matter was adjourned on Monday until Dec. 7.

Heard's barrister Paula Morreau told the court she and the crown prosecutors had been in conversations and was seeking one further short adjournment to take instructions from her client.

The couple made international headlines in May after allegedly breaching the nation's strict quarantine rules, bringing their beloved pooches Boo and Pistol into Australia on Depp's private jet without declaring them to authorities, though the country has no reported cases of canine-born rabies.

Heard returned to the United States straight after the controversy and last month was excused from appearing in the Southport court in person.

International commentators further criticized Australia's strict rules after agricultural minister Barnaby Joyce to threaten the dogs with extermination if they weren't removed within 48-hours.

Joyce defended the decision saying Depp's predicament was not peculiar to him, but to everyone entering Australia.

"We can't start making exemptions," Joyce said.

Heard faces penalties of up to 10-years imprisonment and a 100,000 Australian dollar fine if convicted of the two counts of illegally importing the pets and one count of producing a false document. Enditem