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Alex Jones ditches Sandy Hook hoax claims trial, will return for testimony next week

By Kaelan Deese
Published September 23, 2022 7:10pm ET
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Alex Jones ditches Sandy Hook hoax claims trial, will return for testimony next week
Infowars founder Alex Jones is shown a clip of his former deposition while testifying in the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Connecticut, on Sept. 22, 2022. | (Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool)

Attorneys in the defamation trial for Infowars founder Alex Jones agreed Friday not to return him to the stand following heated testimony on Thursday regarding his peddling of false claims about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

Jones, 48, was slated to testify on Friday but decided against doing so. Instead, he held a brief press conference and then left the courthouse vicinity before the Connecticut trial resumed Friday at 11:30 a.m. ET.

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