Jones told his viewers that the “government staged it,” that “people knew about it in advance,” and that parents were “reading from a script,” Mattei said. In opening statements, Chris Mattei, who is representing the eight Sandy Hook families and Special Agent Aldenberg, emphasized the wholly misleading way Jones framed the tragedy at Sandy Hook. At the end of the new trial, which is expected to take about four weeks, a six-person jury will decide on monetary damages. Jones has already been found guilty of defamation by default for not turning over records in this and a handful of other suits accusing him of targeting innocent people with fantastical-and entirely fictitious-accounts of what really happened at Sandy Hook. “I can’t even describe the last nine and a half years, the living hell that I and others have had to endure because of the recklessness and negligence of Alex Jones,” Heslin said on the stand. They were awarded $4.1 million in compensatory damages and $45.2 million in punitive damages, for a total of $49.3 million. Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis asked for $150 million. 6, Jones lost a similar case in an Austin courtroom, which centered on a lawsuit alleging defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress brought by the mother and father of Jesse Lewis, a 6-year-old boy who died at Sandy Hook. “He is not a person who has any awareness, like you and I do… The jury trial Alex is facing while he engages in behaviors to con his audience to send him more money will be his day of reckoning.” “He is just not able to control himself in any way,” Jones’ ex-wife Kelly told The Daily Beast midway through the first day’s hearings. Instead, Jones broadcast Infowars as normal, during which he claimed his accusers are “lying about us” in between continuing plugs for his “Brain Force Plus” nutritional supplements. The discovery dispute erupted over a Google Analytics spreadsheet regarding audience numbers for Infowars, Jones’ online show, which his team allegedly hid from the other side.Īlthough Jones, who is worth an estimated $270 million, is expected to testify, he did not appear in court on Tuesday.
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