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Alex Jones takes the witness stand to testify at a trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Conn., on Sept. 22, 2022. (Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool, File) Alex Jones has asked a Connecticut judge to throw out a nearly $1 billion verdict against him and order a new trial in a lawsuit by Sandy Hook victims’ relatives over public claims he made about the mass shooting, while the families have asked the judge to impose the harshest possible punitive damages against the InfoWars host.
Jones filed the requests on Oct. 21, arguing that Judge Barbara Bellis’ pretrial rulings resulted in an unfair trial.
Jurors in his trial ordered Jones to pay nearly $1 billion to families of the Sandy Hook school massacre for defamation, slander, and emotional damages.
Jones for years claimed that family members of the Sandy Hook victims were actors who faked the tragedy and described the shooting as a staged hoax as part of a government plot to take away Americans’ guns.
Calling the Oct. 12 ruling against Jones a “substantial miscarriage of justice,” Jones’s legal team wrote in Friday’s motion that “the amount of the compensatory damages award exceeds any rational relationship to the evidence.”
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