Category: New Trial

Alex Jones Seeks New Trial as Sandy Hook Families Seek up to $2.75 Trillion in Punitive Damages

Alex Jones has asked a Connecticut judge to throw out a nearly $1 billion verdict against him and order a new trial in a lawsuit by Sandy Hook victims’ relatives over public claims he made about the mass shooting, while the families have asked the judge to impose the harshest possible punitive damages against the…


Claiming Innocence, Alabama Death Row Inmate Seeks New Trial

MONTGOMERY, Ala.—Toforest Johnson, 49, has spent half his life on Alabama’s death row for the murder of a sheriff’s deputy, a killing he says he did not commit. Johnson’s attorneys asked the Alabama Supreme Court on Friday to “right a grievous wrong” and grant him a new trial. The filing is the latest effort in…