Far-right Infowars owner faced defamation trial for repeatedly saying the school shooting was a hoax
, gave their verdict after deliberating about one hour Wednesday and seven hours Thursday at the end of a nine-days-long trial which saw Jones apologize and concede that the 2012 massacre at the elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, was “100% real”. The verdict levied against Jones was far below the $150m or more the plaintiffs had requested that jurors award them.
That set up a trial whose sole purpose was to determine how much money Jones owed Jesse Lewis’ parents in compensation and possible punitive damages. Jesse Lewis’s parents said they would need much more than an apology to be made whole and pleaded for jurors to hold Jones to account after they argued that he made it impossible for the couple to heal from their child’s killing.
Jones’s attorney, Andino Reynal, tried to persuade jurors that it was unreasonable for them to expect that his client could foresee the abuse that Heslin and Scarlett Lewis would ultimately endure. Those messages included texts that contradicted claims Jones had made under oath in a prior deposition that he had nothing on his phone pertaining to the Sandy Hook massacre. Bankston said he notified Jones’ attorneys of the apparently erroneous leak, but the defense never took steps to label the communications as “privileged,” which could’ve kept them out of court.
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