Appeals Court Gives Weight to Argument That Chris Kyle Jury Should Not Have Been Told Insurer Would Pay Jesse Ventura’s Damages

An 8th Circuit Appeals Court said it would consider ordering a new trial in Jesse Ventura‘s defamation case against the estate of Chris Kyle and HarperCollins over remarks published in AMERICAN SNIPER, the AP reports, because the plaintiff’s attorney told jurors during closing arguments that the publisher’s “insurer is on the hook if you find that Jesse Ventura was defamed” during last year’s trial. The jury awarded Ventura $500,000 for defamation and another $1.3 million for unjust enrichment. Appeals court judge William Riley admonished Ventura’s lawyer, David Bradley Olsen, for being “over the line” with his remarks to the jury, and then challenged […]