A lawyer for Sandy Hook families says significant punitive damages need to be imposed on Alex Jones to deter him and other conspiracy theorists from continuing to tell their followers the 2012 Newtown shooting was a hoax.
FILE - Infowars founder Alex Jones appears in court to testify during the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Conn., on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. A six-person jury reached a verdict Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022, saying that Jones should pay $965 million to 15 plaintiffs who suffered from his lies about the Sandy Hook school massacre. Jones and his company were found liable for damages last year.
“Here, where — in our view — the conduct really rises to the level of reprehensible, evil, really just malicious conduct, there’s no situation in which ... nominal punitive damages would be sufficient under the law," Mattei told the judge. “There’s really no way any of us, I think, can wrap our minds around what kind of depravity it took for Mr. Jones to do what he did."
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