Jury hears closing arguments in Alex Jones’ Sandy Hook trial – By Dave Collins & Pat Eaton-Robb (Associated Press) / Oct 6, 2022
WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — A lawyer for families of eight people killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre told a jury Thursday that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones started lying about the shooting the day it happened and provided the machinery that allowed that lie to spread.
Jones’ attorney countered by telling the jury his client didn’t “invent the Internet” and argued jurors should not award excessive damages just because they are angry about the harassment the families went through at the hands of others who also believed the lie that the shooting was a hoax.
The attorneys presented closing arguments in the trial to determine how much Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, should pay for representing to the audience of his Infowars show that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a hoax staged to impose more gun control laws.
Plaintiff attorney Christopher Mattei told the jury that it was because of Jones and his massive Infowars platform, the families have been subjected to a decade of torment at the hands of conspiracy theorists.
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