Jury awards Sandy Hook father $450,000 for defamation by local conspiracy theorist

[tenderfoot]

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.

It took the jury nearly four hours to decide on the amount 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.

In his own statement after the jury delivered its decision, Pozner thanked the jury “for recognizing the pain and terror that Mr. Fetzer has purposefully inflicted on me and on other victims of these horrific mass casualty events, like the Sandy Hook shooting,” and emphasized that his case was not about First Amendment protections.

“Mr. Fetzer has the right to believe that Sandy Hook never happened,” he said. “He has the right to express his ignorance. This award, however, further illustrates the difference between the right of people like Mr. Fetzer to be wrong and the right of victims like myself and my child to be free from defamation, free from harassment and free from the intentional infliction of terror.”

Fetzer called the damages amount “absurd” and said he would appeal.

https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime-and-courts/jury-awards-sandy-hook-father-for-defamation-by-local-conspiracy/article_cdc741bf-4186-5ff3-af0c-e38be9f26592.html

[Archae]

1. This guy makes Alex Jones look sane.

Fetzer has a long history of wacko conspiracy theory rants, including anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial, 9-11 "trutherism," etc.

[Mike 03]

3. Yes, it's true!

After the Alex Jones deposition was made public I familiarized myself with some of the major Sandy Hook whackjobs and Fetzer sent chills up my spine.

[Hortensis]

4. Perhaps, but that just makes Jones look as evil as he is.

Like all leaders who build power by harnessing resentment and fear -- very much including populist leaders -- Jones identifies and inflames the worst in people to make them their worst.

[Gothmog]

6. Juanita Jean's son, Mark, is suing Infowars

Mark has some good stories about Jones

[malaise]

2. The only way to deal with these scumbags is to make them homeless

and impoverished

Thank you jury

[jberryhill]

5. Fetzer? OUTSTANDING!!!!

That guy is a staple of the CTers. His "Zapruder film was faked" videos are the stuff of legend, and his 9/11 "inside job" stuff is also a popular opus along with "Paul Wellstone was murdered".

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Endlessly promoted by some people at DU:

JFK shite:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22james+fetzer%22+jfk+site%3Ademocraticunderground.com

9/11 shite:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22james+fetzer%22+%229%2F11%22+site%3Ademocraticunderground.com

[47of74]

7. A shitstain and his money are soon parted.

I support what that jury did 10000000%.

Go fuck yourself James.