New York (CNN Business) A Texas judge on Thursday denied a request for a mistrial from the attorney for right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in a trial that will decide how much in damages is awarded to the parents of a Sandy Hook victim who won a default judgment against Jones.
A hearing about the request for a mistrial, which was held as the jury conducted its first day of deliberations on defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress claims, was centered around a disclosure in court on Wednesday
In a stunning moment as he cross-examined Jones on Wednesday, Mark Bankston, the attorney for the Sandy Hook parents, revealed Jones' attorney had "messed up" and sent him two years of records from Jones' phone.
Jones' attorney, Federico Andino Reynal, on Thursday requested at the hearing that Bankston delete the phone records and asked for a mistrial.
Judge Maya Guerra Gamble, who is overseeing the case, suggested to Reynal she could not tell whether his motion for a mistrial was serious or not. She noted he has repeatedly moved for a mistrial during various court proceedings and been denied each time.
Sweatytubesock on August 4th, 2022 at 20:27 UTC »
Maybe Jones’ lawyers are crisis actors.
cinderparty on August 4th, 2022 at 20:24 UTC »
lol, this judge is very much not happy with Alex and his team at this point. Probably because they portrayed her as a pedophile working in hand with child traffickers, on info wars…
SSHeretic on August 4th, 2022 at 19:46 UTC »
But they should have been part of discovery. You messing up and providing the plaintiff with records that you lied about by claiming they didn't exist isn't grounds for a mistrial.