[SubMareener]

Read the article. The argument is about the award for enrichment and whether the threshold for defamation was met. No one is contesting the jury’s finding that Kyle made the incident up out of whole cloth.

[yarddog]

I did read the entire article.

[jonrick46]

The witnesses support Chris Kyle's version. However, because the witness were considered intoxicated, and their testimony inconsistent, they were discounted. Most of the witnesses gave variations of former SEAL Lt. Cmdr. Andrew Paul's account: Paul said he saw a commotion, then saw Ventura get up from the patio floor and yell that he was going to kill Chris Kyle. Afterward, Paul said, “Chris told me, ‘Jesse was running his mouth and I punched him.’ ”