So all the memes aside, is anyone else astounded at how poorly that went for Alex Jones? Just a shit-show nearly the entire time. From his terrible legal representation, to his own terrible testimony. Just a mess.<p>I mean, his 'on-air' personality is a mess, but I always sort of thought it was just a show. It's interesting to me that it turned out he really is just an absolute train-wreck of a person.
I hope they throw the book at him for punitive damages as well. Maybe then people will learn you don't get to sit there spouting blatant lies without consequence.<p>I thought forwarding his messages to the jan6 committee was just a stunt but apparently there's some juicy stuff in there. Will be interesting to see what comes out of it.
I watched the entire trial. I couldn't turn it off, tt was so enlightening to watch the legal proceedings, and I learned a lot.<p>My opinion: to be fair, (not defending Alex Jones at all), the plaintiff's lawyers did not enumerate the actual damages these poor people suffered, nor did they tie them directly to what InfoWars or Alex Jones said (i.e. he never used their names).<p>Although I condem the things he said, if I were on the jury I would have had a hard time assigning a monetary value to something which isn't clear defamation to me.<p>To be fair, the things he said were beyond horrible, but the case and the behavior of all representatives and the judge should be shown in law school classrooms as a reference to "don't EVER do this".
That's probably still a net profit for Alex Jones. According to the documents discussed in court he makes $800,000 a day from his show.<p>If anything, he probably made more covering his own trial than what the trial cost.
This is neither here nor there but my favorite Alex Jones fun fact is that during his divorce trial he told the judge that he once ate a bowl of chili that was so big that it caused him to forget his children’s names.
This is a great and a just decision, but it seems like the damages are a far cry from the $150 million claimed. Were there any sentence limits for the charges against this guy?
I'm not familiar with the legal system in the US. How much of the awarded money does the plaintiff actually receive as compensation in such a case? Do they have to share some of the awarded money with the lawyers? Also, are they also entitled to the punitive part of the damages?<p>I'm asking because in many EU jurisdictions the equivalent of the punitive damages goes to the state or sometimes to charity organizations.
4 million in compensatory damages.<p>Just in, jury finds 45 million in punitive damages, subject to reduction by the judge and any appeal in Jones's favor.