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TexasTowelie

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Mon Dec 16, 2019, 03:10 PM Dec 2019

Sandy Hook lawyer asks judge to hold Alex Jones liable without trial [View all]

By Jonathan Tilove


When asked during the course of a three-hour deposition about his sources for years of claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax, Alex Jones answered “I don’t remember,” 44 times and “I don’t know,” 51 times.

For Houston attorney Mark Bankston, who interrogated Jones last month on behalf of parents whose children were among the 20 first graders killed seven years ago at the Newtown, Conn., school and are suing him for the pain he caused them amid their tragedies, the Jones deposition confirmed that he would never take the case seriously enough to properly answer questions.

That, along with what plantiffs attorneys considered an equally fruitless deposition of InfoWars news director Rob Dew the same day, compounded their failure to preserve and provide pertinent videos, emails and interoffice messages essential to the plaintiff’s case.

On Thursday, Bankston filed the depositions at the Travis County Courthouse along with a motion asking state District Judge Scott Jenkins, who is presiding over four Sandy Hook suits, to sanction Jones and InfoWars for what Bankston considers their flagrant disregard by ordering a default judgment holding the defendants liable without even requiring a jury trial except to determine the size of the damages.

Read more: https://www.statesman.com/news/20191212/sandy-hook-lawyer-asks-judge-to-hold-alex-jones-liable-without-trial
(Austin American-Statesman)
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