Stay updated with breaking news from Deputy defendant. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
A judge ruled force used against Edwards before his death was "unfortunate" but "reasonable," but raised concerns about some actions of jail staff. ....
Attorneys for Los Angeles County claim Vanessa Bryant is going too far in her lawsuit filed over the four LA County Sheriff’s deputies who allegedly shared graphic images of the helicopter crash site where her husband Kobe Bryant and daughter As we previously reported, per the Los Angeles Times, U.S. District Judge John F. Walter ruled in March that Vanessa could obtain the deputies’ names and add them to her lawsuit against the sheriff’s department and county over the handling of Kobe’s crash investigation. The L.A. County lawyers pushed to keep the names sealed to protect the deputies from online threats and harassment. The names were eventually released as part of Vanessa’s amended lawsuit. ....
The claims are made by county attorneys in a filing this week. Vanessa, left, filed a lawsuit against the department in September 2020 following the crash, inset. Kobe and Gianna are right. ....
The county said Bryant has served 126 RFPS (or requests for production) and that the county defendants have completed seven document productions containing 29,941 pages. Bryant “knows that only one non-governmental individual saw accident site photographs depicting human remains,” the county’s filing states. “Because of how (Bryant) phrased her interrogatories, responses include names of first responders who took accident site photographs not depicting human remains and those who shared accident site photographs with other personnel and agencies (like NTSB) for official purposes. Plaintiff knows there has been no public dissemination.” Bryant’s attorneys see it differently. They recently asked for more time to gather evidence after saying they learned that the misconduct by public safety workers is more expansive and more egregious than (Bryant) originally understood.” They said 66 county employees have relevant knowledge of the misconduct and that at least ....