'Some of the dumbest moves I've ever seen': Alex Jones' lawyers are at war with each other
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Juanita Jean's son, Mark Bankston, is the lead attorney in the Texas case against Jones and Infowars. Susan has given me the heads up on some of the hearings and I had fun following the attempted bankruptcy scam.
There has been 10 or so attorneys representing Jones in this litigation with the last attorney quitting during a hearing after the judge stated that she was referring that attorney to the district attorney for document alteration. Jones had two criminal defense attorneys at that hearing and these criminal defense attorneys are or were still counsel of record for the upcoming trial on damages. It was after that hearing that the judge hit Jones with a $1 million sanctioned.
The attempted bankruptcy scam accomplished nothing but probably costed Jones $150,000 in legal fees. The Texas cases are headed back for trial on damages.
I agree with Mark that defense counsel attacking each other is not a good sign
Link to tweet
https://www.rawstory.com/alex-jones-2657481183/
According to Will Sommer of the Daily Beast, the conspiratorial-minded Jones has been employing a rotating cast of attorneys representing himself and InfoWars from a flood of lawsuits and they have been painfully unsuccessful which has led to finger pointing and chaos within his organization.......
According to Mark Bankston, an attorney representing Sandy Hook families who have successfully sued Jones, "It’s unusual to see a defendant turn on his lawyers in the midst of litigation, but it certainly fits the pattern of Mr. Jones blaming everyone else for his problems."
"Paz doesn’t say in her deposition which of their former attorneys InfoWars might sue. But she singled out three lawyers—Marc Randazza, Brad Reeves, and Robert Barnes—for special criticism. Paz also accused some of InfoWars’ lawyers of badly botching document discovery in the cases, an issue that has plagued InfoWars and prompted accusations from plaintiffs’ lawyers that Jones’s lawyers were deliberately sabotaging the process," the Beast's Sommer reported.
"In a statement, Randazza told The Daily Beast said that other, 'utterly terrible' lawyers who have worked for InfoWars are trying to distract from their own mistakes," Sommer wrote with Randazza commenting, "The revolving cast of lawyers at InfoWars has included some outstanding lawyers who are confident in their own abilities It has also included some utterly terrible lawyers who made some of the dumbest moves I’ve ever seen. Those in the latter camp seem to be interested in deflecting attention from their incompetence on to the competent lawyers who compete with them.”