Second day of Alex Jones trial ends in turmoil as lawyers square off

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I heard about this from Juanita Jean earlier tonight

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https://news.yahoo.com/second-day-alex-jones-trial-235008608.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr

Jurors were sent home about 15 minutes early Wednesday amid a dispute between lawyers for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and the parents of a child who was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2015.

Andino Reynal, Jones' lawyer, moved to admit a nine-minute segment of a Jones InfoWars video, but Mark Bankston, a lawyer for the parents, objected, saying the video contained hearsay and was not appropriate for a trial on the size of the damage award Jones must pay for calling the shooting a hoax.....

Reynal complained that said he wanted to show a complete segment to counter "little clips of cherry-picked videos" that Bankston had shown jurors. But Guerra Gamble reminded Reynal that he was supposed to have submitted all evidence at a pretrial hearing but didn't have the videos ready, handcuffing his presentation and putting the court in a bind.

Then tempers flared.....

"Bankston is being dishonest with the court," Reynal said, repeating that that he and the opposing lawyer had agreed to introduce the videos into evidence, with Bankston repeating his denial.....

Guerra Gamble also said she was going to chalk up Reynal's accusations to a tough day in court with emotions running high, adding: "If you are going to call other attorneys in my courtroom dishonest, you have to back that up."

According to Juanita Jean, the judge stated that Mark Bankston always submits all agreements in writing, There will be a hearing tomorrow.

[RockRaven]

1. I'm not usually one for Twitter, but I kept an eye on the feed of someone who was live-tweeting

from the courtroom today, and it looked like it was exactly what one would have expected if one had followed the pretrial hearings, depositions, etc. -- a shit-show of unprofessionalism and gas-lighting and attempts to delay and derail things in inappropriate contexts.

[Lisa0825]

2. Juanita Jean is Mark's mom, so she should know! LOL! :-)

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3. Jones' lawyers tried to bring in a new video?

The time for submitting this was BEFORE the trial at the pretrial conference. Unless there's a really good reason for not having the video long ago, they can save it for their client as a souvenir of how they lost.

[ZZenith]

4. I love the thought that the family's lawyer agreed to it verbally

but then completely denied having done so when it counted.

ANYTHING to see the Alex Joneses of the world get their comeuppance.

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5. Here is more on Jones' sleazy attorney being an asshole

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[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. Someone should tell Jones about the miniature demon portal we opened behind his head.

[Chainfire]

7. I suggest that we just strip Jones of all of his present and future assets

and have a trial at some undetermined time in the future when the lawyers learned to be sweet to each other. That is, in effect, what Jones did to the families. If it were up to me, Jones would leave the courthouse shirtless.

I suspect that the defendant's lawyers are just building appeal materials so as to drag the case out forever.

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8. Jones' attorney took up an hour or so of jury time playing tape of episode of Jones show

This made no sense other than to bore the jury.