Lawyer wants new trial for convicted robber because of filmmaker juror’s tweets

Last February, Miami filmmaker Billy Corben was called up for jury duty.

As he waited to be picked to hear a case, the hyperkinetic Corben pursued his favorite daily activity: Sending out never-ending streams of tweets and Facebook posts.

He probably never dreamed those short messages would get him some ink in the daily paper.

But they did.

The Miami Herald's David Ovalle reports that...