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    Jury orders LA County to pay $31 million in Kobe Bryant crash photo sharing case

    by Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times Aug 24, 2022 3 minutes
    Vanessa Bryant arrives at the U.S. Federal Courthouse on Aug. 19, 2022, to testify in the lawsuit over graphic photos taken by first responders at the scene of the helicopter crash that killed her husband, basketball legend Kobe Bryant, their teenage daughter and seven others.

    LOS ANGELES — A jury Wednesday ordered Los Angeles County to pay Vanessa Bryant, widow of Lakers star Kobe Bryant, and another man $31 million in damages for the graphic photos sheriff’s deputies and firefighters took of the 2020 helicopter crash scene that killed Bryant, his daughter and seven others.

    In reaching the verdict after only a few hours of deliberations, jurors made it clear they had been persuaded by attorneys for Bryant and Chris Chester, who argued illicit photos of the crash victims’ bodies had violated their clients’ right to privacy

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