Jones' lawyer could face consequences for phone-records release

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The lawyer defending conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in a Texas trial drew his own national headlines this week for accidentally handing over highly-sensitive data to his adversaries, opening him up to potential legal consequences.

Houston lawyer Federico Andino Reynal acknowledged that Jones' legal team had provided lawyers for parents of a child killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting with a digital copy of the Infowars founder’s phone contents, which included text messages and medical records.

"Any complaint he would make is, essentially, 'but for my lawyers, I would have been a successful liar,'" Johnston said. A judge in Austin had rejected a bid by Reynal on Thursday to shield the phone records and denied his request for a mistrial over the disclosure. Montiel, now a Republican candidate for Congress, said her daughter, who wants to be a lawyer, interned with Reynal. Montiel said that he "always does the best for his clients."

Johnston said information on Jones' phone relevant to the Sandy Hook claims should have been provided to the plaintiffs before trial, as part of a court-monitored process known as discovery. Once Jones' lawyers found out they had accidentally shared the phone records, they should have at least warned Jones before he was on the stand, he said.

 

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