Alex Jones declares innocence outside Sandy Hook trial despite being found liable for lying about school shooting
CTV
A defiant Alex Jones showed up at a Connecticut courthouse Tuesday declaring his innocence despite already being found liable for spreading the lie that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax.
"This is a travesty of justice and this judge is a tyrant," Jones said outside the courthouse. "This judge is ordering me to say that I'm guilty and to say that I'm a liar. None of that is true. I was not wrong about Sandy Hook on purpose. I questioned it."
Jones left a short time later, indicating he would not be testifying on Tuesday.
Judge Barbara Bellis found Jones and Infowars' parent company, Free Speech Systems, liable by default last year without a trial, as punishment for what she called his repeated failures to turn over documents to the Sandy Hook lawyers.
Jones has complained that he was found "guilty" without trials. There is no guilt in civil trials like this one in Connecticut, or one last month in Texas where a jury awarded nearly $50 million in damages to the parents of one of the children killed in the shooting.
