Legal scholars say the victims of Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist Alex Jones are unlikely to collect much of the more than $1 billion that juries have ordered him to pay.
On Wednesday, a Connecticut jury told Jones to pay $965 million to the families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims and an FBI agent for falsely claiming the rampage was a hoax. That follows the $50 million a Texas jury awarded in August to the family of another slain child after a separate trial.
In addition to these compensatory damages, Jones still faces punitive damages and a third trial in Texas.