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TexasTowelie

(116,798 posts)
Sun Feb 3, 2019, 09:35 PM Feb 2019

Alex Jones seeks venue change in Sandy Hook defamation cases

Bridgeport, Conn. • Lawyers for Infowars host Alex Jones have asked a Connecticut judge to move defamation cases against him to another part of the state as he defends discussions on his web show about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre being a hoax.

The requests filed Wednesday ask that the cases be moved to Windham County. Jones' lawyers say pretrial publicity has made it impossible to get a fair trial in Bridgeport, in the same county where 20 first-graders and six educators were killed in Newtown in 2012.

Lawsuits by families of eight victims and a first responder say they've been subjected to harassment and death threats from Jones' followers. The families' lawyer says they will oppose moving the trial.

Jones cites First Amendment rights and says he believes the shooting happened.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/nation-world/2019/01/31/alex-jones-seeks-venue/
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Alex Jones seeks venue change in Sandy Hook defamation cases (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2019 OP
Fuck Alex Jones Haggis for Breakfast Feb 2019 #1
Well said..n/t monmouth4 Feb 2019 #5
Why should all those Sandy Hook families be inconvenienced for him? RainCaster Feb 2019 #2
I hope the judge turns him down. Delmette2.0 Feb 2019 #3
he needs yo be trued in a venue where the jurors KNOW rampartc Feb 2019 #4

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
1. Fuck Alex Jones
Sun Feb 3, 2019, 09:51 PM
Feb 2019

He and his minions have made the lives of these grief-stricken and heart-broken families a living Hell. Even after these people begged him to stop his crusade to discredit them and savage their children, he kept at it. For years. Now, he's worried that HE won't get a fair trial. He never showed these people any fairness. Any empathy. Any decency.

He has no right now to demand shit.

RainCaster

(11,545 posts)
2. Why should all those Sandy Hook families be inconvenienced for him?
Sun Feb 3, 2019, 09:55 PM
Feb 2019

This noise maker should have to live with what he has wrought.

rampartc

(5,835 posts)
4. he needs yo be trued in a venue where the jurors KNOW
Sun Feb 3, 2019, 10:03 PM
Feb 2019

that the children of their friends and neighbors were killed, not some imported "crisis actors."

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