HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – A Connecticut judge on Thursday denied Infowars host Alex Jones’ motion to seek a new trial and overturn a jury verdict ordering him to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the families of Sandy Hook Elementary School victims. massacre.
The ruling found that the motion was not supported “by any evidence or case law.”
Chris Mattei, an attorney for the Sandy Hook families, said in a statement that the court “has now upheld the historic and only jury reprimand of Alex Jones.”
Jones’ attorney, Norm Pattis, called it “an expected and disappointing decision” and said they would go to the appeals courts.
For years, Jones has described the 2012 shootings in Newtown, Connecticut as a hoax on his Infowars shows.
In October, a jury decided it had to pay the victims’ families $965 million in damages, and a judge later added another $473 million in punitive damages.
The Connecticut ruling came after a separate Texas jury awarded $49 million in damages to the parents of a child killed in a shooting earlier this year.
Jones filed for personal bankruptcy earlier this month.
This story has been corrected to show that the year of the massacre was 2012.
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