Vanessa Bryant's trial against LA County has revealed first responders were quick to share photos of the site – and even quicker to delete them.
, told Insider this week. The real trouble, he posited, is hanging over the already scandal-ridden agency at the heart of the case.
Investigators work the scene of a helicopter crash that killed former NBA basketball player Kobe Bryant and his teenage daughter, and seven others in Calabasas, Calif., on Jan. 27, 2020.extensive efforts LASD took to keep the photos a secretThe agency's attempts may have even proved successful, Rahmani said, if not for the work of intrepid reporters and the brazenness of certain deputies.
When a Los Angeles Times reporter began probing into the complaint and erasure a month after the crash, the department feigned ignorance. Chief Jorge Valdez, then a media relations captain, alongside Villanueva, Valdez testified earlier this week. Deputies' stories have changed numerous times from what they said in the internal investigation to what they said in depositions and on the stand this past week. Deputies have also claimed failed memory while on the stand.
While it's unclear when exactly new LASD phones were purchased or reset after the crash, if deputies destroyed or failed to preserve key evidence after it became clear that litigation was imminent, it would be considered"spoliation of evidence," Rahmani said.
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