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Rachel Sharp

Johnny Depp’s lawyer weighs in on Alex Jones’s latest Sandy Hook defamation trial: ‘Lies are not protected’

Law & Crime

Johnny Depp’s attorney has weighed in on Alex Jones’s latest defamation trial over the Sandy Hook massacre, saying that “lies are not protected” by the First Amendment.

Benjamin Chew appeared on Law & Crime on Tuesday to speak about the case currently playing out in a courtroom in Connecticut, where jurors will decide how much in damages the far-right conspiracy theorist must pay to families of victims of the 2012 mass shooting.

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