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WATERBURY — On day three of the Alex Jones defamation damages trial, an attorney for families of Sandy Hook massacre victims hammered on his contention that the conspiracy theorist spread lies about the school shooting to cash in on his followers’ fears of a government “gun grab.”
A representative of Jones’s Free Speech Systems, Brittany Paz, was called back to the stand before the jury of six in state Superior Court in Waterbury. Jones hired Paz, a Connecticut attorney, in January and paid her $37,000 to represent the company at defamation damages trials in Connecticut and Texas.
Jurors are to determine how much Jones should pay to eight Sandy Hook families and an FBI agent he defamed. The trial, which could last four to six weeks, began Tuesday with emotional testimony from the FBI agent and the sister of a Sandy Hook teacher killed in the December 2012 massacre. Both testified that the shooting and the victims were "real," countering Jones' false claims that the tragedy was “staged,” “synthetic,” “manufactured,” “a giant hoax,” and “completely fake with actors.”
This is the second of three similar trials being held in Texas and Connecticut. In the first trial in Texas last month, Jones was ordered to pay $49 million in damages to the parents of a slain Sandy Hook boy.
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