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An attorney for Los Angeles County said Wednesday there’s not enough evidence to prove first responders shared images of Kobe Bryant’s fatal helicopter crash with the public — before jurors began weighing the case filed by the NBA star’s widow over the photos.
“The evidence isn’t there,” defense attorney Mira Hashmall told the jury during closing statements in Los Angeles federal court. “This is a pictures case but there are no pictures.”
Hashmall said county deputies and firefighters took photos of the horrific January 2020 crash that killed the Lakers legend and eight other to document it — but never shared those images with anyone from the public.
“Can you fault them for being confused, if that was a foot or an arm?” she asked jurors. “We expect our first responders to be heroes but they are human.”
Before deliberations on the 11th day of the trial over Vanessa Bryant’s federal invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against the county, Hashmall urged jurors to consider that none of the images have ever emerged in the media or online.
