HARTFORD, Conn. — A Connecticut decide on Thursday denied Infowars host Alex Jones’ movement in search of a brand new trial and the overturning of a jury verdict requiring him to pay a whole bunch of tens of millions of {dollars} to households of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary College bloodbath.
The ruling discovered the movement was not supported “by any proof or case legislation.”
Chris Mattei, an lawyer for the Sandy Hook households, mentioned in a press release that the courtroom “has now affirmed the jury’s historic and simply rebuke of Alex Jones.”
Jones lawyer Norm Pattis referred to as it “an anticipated and disappointing choice” and mentioned they might be heading to the appellate courts.
For years Jones described the 2021 shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, as a hoax on his Infowars broadcasts.
In October the jury determined that he should pay victims’ households $965 million in compensatory damages, and a decide later added on one other $473 million in punitive damages.
The Connecticut choice got here after a separate jury in Texas awarded the mother and father of a kid killed within the taking pictures $49 million in damages earlier this yr.
Jones filed for private chapter earlier this month.
