Amber Heard attorneys say juror served improperly, seek mistrial

One of the jurors in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation

trial served improperly, an attorney for Heard alleged in a recent filing

that asked the court to declare a mistrial and order a new trial.

“Newly discovered facts” show Juror No. 15 in the six-week trial was not

the individual summoned in April to serve in the case, Heard’s attorney

wrote in a five-page memo filed Friday in Virginia’s Fairfax Circuit Court.

Instead, the filing suggests Juror No. 15 was a younger individual

with the same last name who “apparently” lives at the same address.

“As the Court no doubt agrees, it is deeply troubling for an individual not