The lawyer maintains that Call of Duty Maker cannot be held responsible for the actions of the Texas school shooter | US school rifles
A lawyer for the Call of Duty video game manufacturer argued on Friday that a judge should reject a trial brought by the families of the victims of the attack on the Robb primary school in Uvalde, Texas, saying that the content of the war game is protected by the first amendment.
Families continued Call of Duty Maker Activision and Meta Platforms, which has Instagram, saying that companies are responsible for the products used by the teenager shooter.
Three series of parents who lost children in the shooting were in the audience at the hearing of Los Angeles.
Activision lawyer Bethany Kristovich told the judge of the Superior Court William Highberger that “the first amendment prohibited their complaints, a full period of the period”.
“Armed violence problems are incredibly difficult,” said Kristovich. “The evidence in this case is not.”
She argued that the case was unlikely to prevail if it continues, because the courts have repeatedly judged that “the creators of artistic works, whether books, music, films, television or video games, cannot be held legally responsible for the acts of their audience”.
The trial, one of the many Uvalde families, was deposited last year on the occasion of the second anniversary of one of the deadliest schools in American history. The shooter killed 19 students and two teachers. The police finally faced and pulled it over more than an hour to enter the fourth year class.
During the hearing, families’ lawyer Josh Koskoff has shown contracts and correspondence between Activision Managers and Firearms manufacturers whose products, he said, are clearly and exactly represented in the game despite the brand names that do not appear.
He said that the shooter knew “absorption and self -loss in Call of Duty”.
Koskoff said that the immersion was so deep that the shooter looked online how to get a armored costume that he didn’t only know in the game.
Koskoff played a Call of Duty clip, with a first -person shooter who draws opponents.
The shots sounded loudly in the courtroom, and several people in the audience slowly shook their heads.
Family lawyers are expected to discuss the first amendment to the Activision case later on Friday.
Highberger told lawyers that he did not rely in both directions before the hearing, and it is unlikely to make a decision immediately.
Meta was not involved in this hearing or the request during the argument.
