The Wisconsin State Journal reports:
A Dane County jury on Tuesday decided a village of Oregon conspiracy theorist must pay the father of a boy killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook shootings $450,000 for falsely claiming that the father circulated fabricated copies of his son’s death certificate.
James Fetzer must pay Leonard Pozner, whose son, Noah, 6, was the youngest victim of the Dec. 14, 2012, massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
The award follows Circuit Judge Frank Remington’s ruling in June that Fetzer defamed Pozner with four false statements about the death certificate. The statements appeared in a book Fetzer co-authored and edited, and in his blog.
Jury awards $450,000 to the father of a boy killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting after he filed a defamation lawsuit against conspiracy theorists who claimed massacre never happened https://t.co/S1YjFNhmE8 pic.twitter.com/S40iRaSIsd
— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 16, 2019
Sandy Hook shooting: Parent awarded $450,000 for defamation https://t.co/GD1kPyrjE6
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 16, 2019
Good. Bankrupt every person who harassed Sandy Hook parents.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) October 16, 2019
He told the jury that he remembered the large number of people at Noah’s funeral & the heavy law enforcement presence, & said that when viewing his son’s body he wanted to hold his hand, but couldn’t because that was a part of his body hit in the shootinghttps://t.co/z3POUybtlh
— Khary Penebaker, Fx (@kharyp) October 16, 2019
Jury: Retired Professor Must Pay Father of Youngest Sandy Hook Victim $450,000 for Defamation https://t.co/aGG8Bm2z1L pic.twitter.com/z33dsj412r
— Law & Crime (@lawcrimenews) October 16, 2019