At the start of the trial, attorneys for Lewis and Heslin asked the jury to award their clients $150 million in compensatory damages. Jones baselessly said in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting, in which 26 people were killed, that the incident was staged. Fighting back tears at times, Heslin told the jury that Jones, through his conspiratorial media organization Infowars, “tarnished the honor and legacy” of his son. “Jesse was real,” Lewis told Jones. “It seems so incredible to me that we have to do this,” Lewis told Jones.

Source: CNN August 04, 2022 23:44 UTC