HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut decide on Thursday denied Infowars host Alex Jones’ movement searching for a brand new trial and the overturning of a jury verdict requiring him to pay lots of of thousands and thousands of {dollars} to households of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary Faculty bloodbath.
The ruling discovered the movement was not supported “by any proof or case legislation.”
Chris Mattei, an legal professional for the Sandy Hook households, mentioned in an announcement that the courtroom “has now affirmed the jury’s historic and simply rebuke of Alex Jones.”
Jones’ legal professional Norm Pattis referred to as it “an anticipated and disappointing determination” and mentioned they’d be heading to the appellate courts.
For years Jones described the 2012 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 determination got here after a separate jury in Texas awarded the dad and mom of a kid killed within the taking pictures $49 million in damages earlier this yr.
Jones filed for private chapter earlier this month.
This story has been corrected to point out that the yr of the bloodbath was 2012.