Alex Jones seeks venue change in Sandy Hook defamation cases

[TexasTowelie]

Bridgeport, Conn. • Lawyers for Infowars host Alex Jones have asked a Connecticut judge to move defamation cases against him to another part of the state as he defends discussions on his web show about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre being a hoax.

The requests filed Wednesday ask that the cases be moved to Windham County. Jones' lawyers say pretrial publicity has made it impossible to get a fair trial in Bridgeport, in the same county where 20 first-graders and six educators were killed in Newtown in 2012.

Lawsuits by families of eight victims and a first responder say they've been subjected to harassment and death threats from Jones' followers. The families' lawyer says they will oppose moving the trial.

Jones cites First Amendment rights and says he believes the shooting happened.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/nation-world/2019/01/31/alex-jones-seeks-venue/
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[Haggis for Breakfast]

1. Fuck Alex Jones

He and his minions have made the lives of these grief-stricken and heart-broken families a living Hell. Even after these people begged him to stop his crusade to discredit them and savage their children, he kept at it. For years. Now, he's worried that HE won't get a fair trial. He never showed these people any fairness. Any empathy. Any decency.

He has no right now to demand shit.

[monmouth4]

5. Well said..n/t

[RainCaster]

2. Why should all those Sandy Hook families be inconvenienced for him?

This noise maker should have to live with what he has wrought.

[Delmette2.0]

3. I hope the judge turns him down.

[rampartc]

4. he needs yo be trued in a venue where the jurors KNOW

that the children of their friends and neighbors were killed, not some imported "crisis actors."