InfoWars founder and conspiracy peddler Alex Jones was ordered Wednesday to pay upward of $965 million in fines determined by a jury in his defamation trial over his false claims regarding the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting.
The six-member jury began deliberations in Connecticut court last week to decide how much Jones should pay for spreading false information to his millions of viewers about the 2012 massacre that resulted in 26 fatalities. Attorneys for plaintiffs, which include eight families of deceased shooting victims and an FBI agent, told jurors that Jones had lied about the events of the shooting since the day it happened and used the internet to help disseminate false information about that day.
"The lies that started on December 14, 2012, are continuing to this very day," plaintiffs' attorney Christopher Mattei said on Oct. 6. "In two months it will be 10 years, 10 years since these families lost their loved ones and even now, even now, he's still doing it."
Jurors extended their deliberations into Wednesday after they requested to revisit testimony from William Sherlach, one of the plaintiffs in the defamation lawsuit whose wife Mary was a victim in the massacre.
The deliberations were also prolonged due to the jury's questions on Tuesday over interpreting a sentence in their instructions on determining damages, a small portion of the 29-page set of instructions provided to them on how to apply the law to the case.
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