Weeks after he was ordered to pay millions in damages to the parents of a Sandy Hook victim for spreading lies that the 2012 mass shooting was a hoax, Infowars host Alex Jones is again facing a jury.
Jones is currently on trial in Waterbury, Connecticut, about 20 miles from Newtown, where the shooting took place. A jury is being asked to decide how much he should pay in damages to the families of eight Sandy Hook shooting victims and an FBI agent who responded to the attack, all of whom say his lies about the shooting caused them suffering.
Twenty children and six educators were killed after a gunman entered their school and opened fire in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown on Dec. 14, 2012. The judgment came after Jones repeatedly refused to comply with discovery requests and delayed the court process. “There are compensatory damages, which are amounts that will be paid for actual harms that could be shown by the families, and then punitive damages, which of course derived from the Latin word to punish, which are really more directed at Jones.
While O’Neill said he’s not sure if this will work the same way in Jones’ case, that is the normal procedure for defamation cases in the state. Still on the docket is a third defamation trial, again in Texas, for damages filed against him by Pozner and De La Rosa. A jury will once more decide the issue of how much he owes the family in damages.
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