As a contentious lawsuit against LA County unfolds, legal experts say Vanessa Bryants’ celebrity and influence have made her a formidable opponent and target at a time when many residents view the sheriff's department with deep suspicion.
"The County has not been the aggressor in this lawsuit, and the numbers prove it," said
"The County has tried at all times to be selective and sensitive in its defense of this case, as it does in all of its litigation but especially out of respect to the pain and loss Ms. Bryant has suffered because of the helicopter crash," Miller said in an emailed statement. If the defense can show Bryant’s emotional state was compromised prior to the loss of her husband and daughter then perhaps there is ground for a dismissal, Shakhnevich added.“This is such a classic thing to say to a woman: ‘There is no proof you had emotional distress,’” she said. “I don’t think their overaggressiveness will serve them well if this is the attitude they have in front of a jury.”
“Protocol could be to take photographs of deceased people at the scene,” said Alfonso Estrada, a labor attorney and former prosecutor in Los Angeles who is not involved in the case. “But when you step outside the regular course and scope of your duties and you’re presenting them to folks for gratuitous purposes, at that point it deviates from standard practice.”, Bryant said she has lived in fear of seeing graphic photos of her husband's and child's remains posted online.
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