Sandy Hook lawyers say Alex Jones's attorneys accidentally gave them his phone contents

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The legal team representing Infowars founder Alex Jones inadvertently sent the contents of his cellphone to a lawyer representing the parents of a child killed in the Sandy Hook mass shooting, the parents’ lawyer said in court Wednesday.

The apparent blunder, revealed by attorney Mark Bankston as Jones was on the stand in the damages phase of his defamation trial, unearthed previously undisclosed texts about the massacre and financial information about Infowars. Bankston, who represents Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, parents of 6-year-old Jesse Lewis, told the far-right conspiracy theorist that his attorneys had “messed up and sent me an entire digital copy of your entire cellphone.”

“And that is how I know you lied to me when you said you didn’t have text messages about Sandy Hook,” Bankston said.....

Bankston noted Jones had testified under oath that he personally searched his cellphone for Sandy Hook text messages and was unable to find any. Bankston asked, “You know what perjury is, right? I just want to make sure you know before we go any further.”....

After Jones’s years-long refusal to comply with court orders and hand over documents and evidence in lawsuits, District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble of Travis County, Tex. in September found Jones responsible for all damages. She issued a default judgement against Jones, blasting him and his website’s parent company, Free Speech Systems, for having “intentionally disobeyed” the court’s requests by refusing to turn over documents related to the various lawsuits against him.

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1. If true that attorney just set himself up for a malpractice suit, though I'm glad the info got out.

Jones is more sickening than pond scum. But this sounds like a major breach of client confidentiality.

Or maybe the attorney hates Jones so much that he was willing to risk a suit to sink the slimeball.

Or Jones hired the world's most incompetent attorney, or one with incompetent staff.

Any best on which is the case?

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2. Here is a discussion of the 10 day rule that Mark Bankston mentioned

Mark notified Jones' attorney in writing of the production issue and put Jones's attorney on notice so as to start the ten day period. This is from a litigator who I met at a securities CLE more than 10 years ago.

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3. There were intimate conversations between Alex Jones and Roger Stone in material produced

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4. Jones is unhappy

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