What you need to know about the trial over the Kobe Bryant crash photos
The trial that began Wednesday in federal court in downtown Los Angeles has it all: celebrity, scandal, drama, bold-faced names. At the heart of the case — Vanessa Bryant vs. the county of Los Angeles — is the troubled Sheriff’s Department, whose deputies are accused of sharing graphic photos of the helicopter crash that killed Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others. The city mourned when Kobe and Gianna Bryant were killed. Now we watch to see what will happen when star witnesses take the stand.
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How Vanessa Bryant and another plaintiff won a stunning legal victory over gruesome Kobe crash photos.
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Vanessa Bryant’s appearance came on the eighth day of a trial in her federal lawsuit against L.A. County over gruesome photos of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant.
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The shifting stories and sudden amnesia were among several inconsistencies and contradictions that lawyers for Vanessa Bryant focused on in the trial’s fourth day.
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The high-profile trial began Wednesday, with Vanessa Bryant’s attorney describing the carnage from the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant — and the photos sheriff’s deputies displayed of the crash.
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A high-profile trial begins over L.A. County Sheriff’s deputies’ sharing photos of the crash that killed Kobe Bryant.
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The lawsuits allege the families’ constitutional rights were violated after L.A. County deputies and firefighters shared photos of the crash scene.
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In a lawsuit against L.A. County, Kobe Bryant’s widow says she lives in fear that grisly images from the helicopter crash scene will go viral. County attorneys say the photos are gone and cannot be recovered.
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Vanessa Bryant must turn over therapy records to L.A. County in her lawsuit for severe emotional distress after learning deputies and firefighters shared images of a helicopter crash scene.
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Sheriff Villanueva must testify to his ‘first-hand’ knowledge of Kobe Bryant crash photo-sharing
A federal judge ordered L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva to testify in a lawsuit brought by Vanessa Bryant alleging deputies shared photos of the crash scene where her husband, daughter and seven others died.
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In a court filing Wednesday, Vanessa Bryant named the L.A. County sheriff’s deputies who allegedly shared photos of the helicopter crash that killed her husband, their daughter and seven others.
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Vanessa Bryant’s lawsuit alleges that deputies took photos of the helicopter crash site, and that Sheriff Alex Villanueva failed to investigate.
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Vanessa Bryant has filed a claim against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department over deputies sharing “unauthorized†photos of the scene of the helicopter crash that killed her husband, Kobe Bryant, their daughter and seven others.
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Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, 41, died Sunday in a helicopter crash in Calabasas along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others.
