Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has asked a Connecticut judge to throw out a nearly $1 billion judgment against him and order a new trial in a lawsuit by Sandy Hook families who say they were harassed and threatened by Jones’ lies about the 2012 Newtown school shooting.

Jones filed the motions Friday, saying the pretrial rulings by Judge Barbara Bellis resulted in an unfair trial and a “substantial miscarriage of justice.”

“Furthermore, the amount of damages exceeds any rational consideration of the evidence presented at trial,” Jones’ attorneys, Norm Pattis and Kevin Smith, wrote in the motion.

Christopher Mattei, an attorney for the 15 plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Jones, declined to comment on the filing Saturday, but said he and other attorneys for the Sandy Hook families will file a brief against Jones.

Twenty first graders and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School were killed in the attack on December 14, 2012.

The FBI agent who responded to the shooting and relatives of the eight children and adults killed in the massacre sued Jones for defamation and infliction of emotional distress after he pushed the false narrative that the shooting was a hoax orchestrated by “crisis actors” to impose more arms control.

Six jurors in Waterbury, Conn., on Oct. 12 ordered Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, to pay the plaintiffs $965 million in compensatory damages and said punitive damages should also be awarded. Bellis scheduled a hearing for early next month to determine the amount of punitive damages.

During the trial, relatives of the victims said in often emotional testimony that they had been threatened and harassed for years by people who believed the lies on Jones’ show. Strangers would show up at families’ homes to record them and publicly confront them. People threw insulting comments on social media. Relatives said that they were threatened with murder and rape.

Video below: Sandy Hook victims emotional after verdict

The sentences came after another jury in Texas ordered Jones and his company to pay nearly $50 million in damages to the parents of another child killed in Sandy Hook in August. A third trial on fraud charges involving two more Sandy Hook parents is expected to take place in Texas later this year.

Jones, who has acknowledged in recent years that the shooting did happen, criticized the lawsuits and courts on his Infowars show in Austin, Texas, calling them unfair and a violation of his free speech rights.

But he lost his right to a defense when judges in Connecticut and Texas found him liable without a trial in default damages for what they said were Jones’ repeated refusals to turn over some evidence, including financial documents and website analytics, to Sandy’s lawyers Hook.

Because liability had already been established, the courts in both states focused only on how much Jones should pay in damages.

Pattis, Jones’ attorney, wrote in motions filed Friday that there was no evidence Jones was directly connected to the people who harassed and threatened the Sandy Hook families. Pattis said the trial resembles “a funeral service, not a trial.”

“Yes, the families in this case suffered terribly as a result of their children being killed,” Pattis wrote, adding that Jones did not send people to harass and threaten the families.

“No competent evidence has been offered at this trial that he ever did,” he wrote. “Instead, there was a shocking abuse of disciplinary default and its transformation into a series of half-truths that misled the jury and resulted in substantial injustice.”