Father of Sandy Hook victim awarded $450,000 in defamation lawsuit against conspiracy theorists
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-sandy-hook-defamation-lawsuit-20191016-mgjitkfltnfhlnyd7eizyw3tn4-story.htmlOCT 16, 2019
A father whose son was one of 26 victims in 2012′s Sandy Hook mass shooting has been awarded $450,000 in a defamation lawsuit he filed against writers who claimed the horrific elementary school massacre never took place.
On Tuesday, a jury in Dane County, Wis. decided James Fetzer — who coauthored the book, “Nobody Died at Sandy Hook†— would have to pay nearly half a million dollars to Leonard Pozner, according to the Associated Press.
In the 2015 book, which has since been pulled from shelves, Fetzer and coauthor Mike Palacek, claim that Pozner fabricated copies of the death certificate of his 6-year-old son Noah, who was killed in the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
A judge ruled earlier this year that Pozner was defamed by four false statements concerning Noah’s death certificate, according to the Wisconsin State Journal....