The plea for wrongdoing followed the revelation during the two-week trial that Jones’ lawyer mistakenly sent two years of the American conspiracy theorist’s text messages to the plaintiffs. Federico Andino Reynal, Jones’ attorney, told Judge Maya Guerra Gamble that the plaintiffs’ attorneys should have destroyed the records immediately. The parents’ attorney, Mark Bankston, used the texts to undermine Jones’ testimony during cross-examination Wednesday. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Jones, founder of the Infowars radio show and webcast, is on trial to determine the amount of damages he owes for spreading falsehoods about the December 14, 2012, slaying of 20 children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. . Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the parents of murdered six-year-old Jesse Lewis, are seeking up to $150 million from Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems LLC, for what their lawyer called a “vicious smear campaign.” Heslin told jurors Tuesday that Jones’ lies had made his life “hell” and led to a campaign of harassment and death threats against him from people who believed he lied about his son’s death. Jones has previously argued that the mainstream media and gun control activists conspired to fabricate the Sandy Hook tragedy and that the shooting was staged using crisis actors. Jones, who later acknowledged the shooting, told an Austin jury Wednesday it was “100 percent true.” Gamble issued a rare default judgment against Jones in the case in 2021. Free Speech Systems filed for bankruptcy last week. Jones said during an Infowars broadcast Monday that the filing will help the company stay on the air while it appeals. Jones faces a similar defamation suit in Connecticut state court, where he has also been found liable in default. Sandy Hook gunman Adam Lanza, 20, used a Remington Bushmaster rifle to carry out the massacre. It ended when Lanza killed himself to the sound of approaching police sirens. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Report by Jack Queen. Editing: Noeleen Walder, Amy Stevens and Howard Goller Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.