Posted on 08/04/2022 9:25:55 AM PDT by Subcutaneous Fishstick Blues
“Jones never once said the purported Sandy Hook victims’ names on the air — which, using common sense, would seem to be a baseline element of any defamation case”
Bad assumption. Amber Heard never mentioned Johnny Depp’s name in her op-ed that was the center of that recent defamation case, and the jury still decided she had defamed him and had to pony up $15 million. If it is clear to the reader or listener who you are talking about, then you do not have to speak their name in order to be judged to be making defamatory statements.
Mental health authorities don’t work that fast if at all.
Makes Hannity’s recent change to “cowering in a corner” more understandable.
“prosecution’s theory in the ongoing civil lawsuit”
Civil lawsuits have prosecutors?
Alex Jones deserves all the pain he has coming to him. Nobody should be defending him, he is a psychopath, and a malicious one at that.
If I were to defame people the way he did then I would expect them to come for me.
Alex Jones is a pos and deserves whatever happens to him
“In a break from the Constitution, Alex Jones never got a jury trial to decide his guilt in this matter. Judges instead unilaterally issued a default judgment of guilt.”
Default judgement was issued because Jones and his legal team refused to comply with the court’s orders for discovery. They were essentially obstructing the legal process, and so the court presumed that they were doing so because they didn’t have a valid defense to present.
Maybe that was a bad presumption to make, but that’s something Jones is probably going to have to argue on appeal. Defying the judge’s order is a very stupid gamble to make in any court.
Doesnt matter who you think of him, IF you didnt get the ACTUAL GIST of the story, we’re NEXT..
“In a break from the Constitution, Alex Jones never got a jury trial to decide his guilt in this matter. Judges instead unilaterally issued a default judgment of guilt.”
It’s a civil case, there is not prosecution, there is no guilt and a default judgement will be issued if a party does not responded.
“In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved.”
By failing to respond, Jones waived his right to trial by jury.
“To emphasize, the current jury proceedings are not to determine guilt...”
Guilt is not a question in a civil trial.
“The state wants to demonstrate that it is no longer remotely constrained by the Constitution when it persecutes its enemies.”
The state is not a party in this civil case.
The “gist” was BS
i do not understand the default judgment
did he get a bench trial?
The author fits right in with the lazy and ignorant coverage of legal issues by the media in general. No, civil lawsuits don’t have prosecutors, and they don’t have findings of “guilt,” either. This is a default judgment, meaning Jones was served with the lawsuit, and blew it off. I don’t have any sympathy for him, because he comes off as a nut, which does not help us as a movement. As to the lawsuit in particular, by failing to respond, he’s the author of his own fate.
Don’t need to make this guy a hero. His own attorney outed him as a liar when the attorney accidentaly sent text and email messages from Jones’ phone to the plaintiffs.
Jones was testifying on the stand, lying is butt off, saying there were no emails or texts on his phone, when the plaintiff attorney started displaying the actual emails in court on a video screen. Big Oops (can you say perjury? I knew you could).
1) Jones was lying about the email and texts existing.
2) The phone data should have been turned over the to plaintiffs many, many months ago (but Jones lies and says he turned over everything).
3) Attorneys for Jones knowingly let Jones lie under oath, they may be in trouble along with Jones.
who has done far more the bring bad shit to light than you would do in a thousand lifetimes.
Amen.
Jones’ is not on my team.
You WILL accept all official narratives and tear down anyone who questions it.
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