Los Angeles County wants a judge to force Kobe Bryant’s widow to undergo a psychiatric evaluation to prove she suffered emotional distress from leaked photos of the crash that killed her husband, daughter and seven others.
Yet despite the lawsuits filed by Vanessa Bryant and other relatives of those killed in the January 2020 helicopter crash, which allege that images from the scene were taken andand firefighters, the county is refusing to allow Sheriff Alex Villaneuva or county Fire Chief Daryl Osby to be deposed.
Bryant says she suffered severe emotional distress after learning of the photos, arguing they compounded the loss of her husband,The county’s lawyers argued in a filing Friday that Bryant must submit to an independent medical examination before the federal trial in February 2022. In asking the judge to compel the exam, they said that she"cannot be suffering distress from accident site photos that they have never seen and that were never publicly disseminated.
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