One criminal defense attorney told Newsweek that the trial seems like "the culmination, at least from a criminal justice perspective, of the #MeToo movement."
"It is clear that Mr Jones time on the American stage is finally coming to an end," said Mark Bankston, the attorney for Sandy Hook parents Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis.
A jury has ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $4.1m (£3.3m) in damages to the parents of a six-year-old boy who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.