McGuire said that, on the day of the crash, the bodies of three victims were brought down the mountain. Taking photos of victims "would not be an exercise of good judgment," and by taking and sharing them, Jordan "compounded" the grief for the plaintiffs.īryant and Chester left the courtroom while Kristina McGuire, lead investigator from the coroner's office, told of arriving at the crash scene to find a debris field stretching the length of a football field, and human remains "spread across the entire scene." Jordan's purported photos, he said, showed "complete disregard" for the dignity of the victims. They (photos) can be more accurate than what you can remember." "We have found nothing" online or on any of employee devices the department looked at, he said.Ĭalled as a defense witness, Marrone told the jury that the fire department uses photography at accident and fire scenes "for documentation. The plaintiffs allege that county personnel took grisly cell phone pictures of human remains at the remote Calabasas crash site for their own amusement as "souvenirs" and shared them with other law enforcement personnel and members of the public.Īlso Monday, sheriff's commander William Jaeger testified about the department's internal investigation of the photos.
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The ninth day of trial for Vanessa Bryant and Chris Chester's combined lawsuits alleging negligence and invasion of privacy for the snapping and sharing of accident scene photos is expected to see sheriff's personnel called to the stand to discuss the internal investigation into the pictures and their deletion.
Kobe Bryant lawsuit: Testimony continues in helicopter crash scene photos trial Bryant's 41-year-old husband Kobe and 13-year-old daughter Gianna, along with Chester's wife Sarah and the couple's 13-year-old daughter Payton, were among the nine people killed in the Jan. Vanessa Bryant and Irvine financial adviser Chester are suing the county for unspecified millions of dollars over the digital images, which they have never seen.
Kobe Bryant lawsuit: Testimony continues in ninth day of helicopter crash scene photos trial.The ninth day of trial for Vanessa Bryant and Chris Chester's combined lawsuits alleging negligence and invasion of privacy for the taking and sharing of accident scene photos saw county sheriff's and fire personnel called to the stand to discuss the investigation into the pictures and their deletion.
Jordan's photos, however, were "inconsistent with standards," he told the court, adding that any shots of body parts would be "inappropriate." "I gave a very direct order for everyone on the scene to be sensitive with the photography they take," Marrone said.
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