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A Texas judge warned Alex Jones by talking to a reporter during a defamation trial break.
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“I’m not going to do it again,” said Maya Gera Gambling District Judge when Jones returned to court.
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Tuesday is the first day of a defamation trial for Jones’ false comments about Sandy Hook.
A Texas judge rebuked Alex Jones, a far-right conspiracy theorist and founder of Infowars, for speaking to reporters during a break from Sandy Hook’s defamation trial on Tuesday.
“This will never happen again,” Judge Maya Gera Gamble of the Travis County District Court told Jones.
CNN Reporter Oliver Darcy reported Gambling continued: “All participants in this trial … are they ordered to be silent by this court, or are they visible to the jury?”
Bridget Spencer, Local Station WAPP Reporter, Tweet A video showing Jones interacting with the media during a short break in the trial. Jones opposed the proceedings for infringing his rights to the First Amendment.
“This is a kangaroo court, this is a political act, a witch hunt. I’ll be back later,” he continued before being guided.
Tuesday is the first day of Jones Defamation trial He said the 2012 Sandy Hook School shooter was a “hoax” over false comments.
A defamation trial brought by the parents of Sandy Hook’s victims decides how much Jones should pay them to make a false allegation.
Jones from Texas has already been discovered Defamation charges By the courts of his home state and Connecticut.
According to plaintiffs’ lawyers, the jury in his trial led a decade-long “massive lie campaign” on the shootings of the parents of a boy who was killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. You need to force Jones to pay $ 150 million. His opening statement on Tuesday.
Jones’s “disgusting series of lies” about the worst school shootings in US history harass Neil Hesslin and Scarlet Lewis, parents of six-year-old Jesse Louise, one of the 26 who were rampaged and killed. Caused pain, said lawyer Mark Bankston.
The lawyer said he was asking for “what gives justice to the level of harm done in this case-the sad parents of the murdered children who had to endure the most sneaky and vulgar campaigns for 10 years. Harm done in. ” Defamation defamation in American history. “
Jones’ defense counsel, F. Andino Reinal acknowledged in his opening statement that his client and Infowars covered Sandy Hook’s shooting with a tilt that “children were really killed, but there is a government cover-up.” ..
Reinal told the jury that Jones “repeatedly apologized for the coverage he gave to Sandy Hook,” and “regrets what he did.”
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