Thousands of pages of witness interviews, videos and other evidence were publicly released week after The San Diego Union-Tribune intervened in the young woman's family's lawsuit
A San Diego federal judge granted a request Friday to unseal videos and other evidence related to the death of an inmate at the Las Colinas jail in Santee.
The Serna family and news organizations have argued that the public has a right to see the evidence, some of which was presented in open court in a criminal case
Video evidence remains sealed, despite some of it having been shown in open court previously. Keeping it sealed 'would set a dangerous precedent,' said Union-Tribune editor Lora Cicalo.
Prosecutors sought the dismissal of the case less than a week after an El Cajon jury deadlocked 9-3 in favor of acquitting Dr. Friederike Von Lintig, the doctor on duty the day 24-year-old Elisa Serna died