“I’m claiming I’ve been harmed, and I’m claiming the story is a fabricated lie,” Ventura told the court earlier this month.
Following five days of deliberations, the jury in the Jesse Ventura has not been able to reach a verdict, prompting a judge to ask the panel to try one more time, Reuters reports. The jury will reconvene today.
Former Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura is suing the estate of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle for defamation. Ventura, a former SEAL himself, claims that his annual income dropped significantly after he was identified by Kyle as the man he got into a bar fight with in “American Sniper: The autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History.”
“I’m claiming I’ve been harmed, and I’m claiming the story is a fabricated lie,” Ventura told the court earlier in the month.
Although Kyle originally referred to Ventura as “Scruff Face” in his book, he later revealed the true identify of the man in the bar during interviews for the book’s release.
According to MinnPost.com, for Ventura to win the lawsuit and rake in $15 million (the monetary reward suggested by the former wrestler’s attorneys) the panel must decide that the story was false, that is was defamatory and the Kyle knew that it was false.
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