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Civil Litigation

Nov. 10, 2021

Jurors should consider why photos of Bryant crash were destroyed, lawyer says

Kobe Bryan’s widow is suing Los Angeles County over photos taken at the site of the crash that killed the basketball star.

Lawyers representing Vanessa Bryant said that jurors should be allowed to infer at trial that the destruction of evidence by deputy sheriffs, namely photos of her husband's January 2020 helicopter crash site, is unfavorable to the County of Los Angeles defendants.

If the jury sides with the plaintiffs' theory of the county's alleged bad faith destruction of evidence, then those findings make it more likely that the photos actually did dep...

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