Juror's Tweets Not Enough to Overturn Guilty Verdict

A judge recently held that a juror's inappropriate tweets during trial were not sufficient grounds to overturn a defendant's criminal conviction for murder. The key point for the judge is that the juror did not tweet about facts in the case.  However, the juror did tweet from the jury box and send tweets such as: 

In my book, everybody’s guilty until proven innocent.

It will be interesting to see whether this ruling will be upheld on appeal.

Fairfield Daily Republic: Judge: Juror's Twitter messages during trial not prejudicial