After a Connecticut jury awarded nearly $1 billion to survivors and family members of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre, Alex Jones has now decided it might be a good thing to try to put on a defense, and he’s filed a motion to have the previous verdict dismissed because he doesn’t want to lose all his money he feels the trial judge was unfair.
According to NBC News, Jones claims that Judge Barbara Bellis established ground rules for the trial in pre-trial hearings that made the proceedings impossibly unfair for Jones and therefore the verdict–and the subsequent $965 million awarded to plaintiffs for Jones’ defamation–should be dismissed and a new trial held.
Jones’ lawyers also claim that the amount of the damages awarded was too much. “Additionally, the amount of the compensatory damages award exceeds any rational relationship to the evidence offered at trial,” they wrote in the filing.