Vanessa Bryant fires back at LA County for its 'full-scale attack' on her in ongoing battle over crash photos

Attorneys representing Vanessa Bryant in her lawsuit against Los Angeles County after sheriff's deputies allegedly shared photos of the wreckage and loved ones' remains following the helicopter crash last year that killed her husband and daughter have come down hard against the county for "launching a full-scale attack" on the widow, court papers show. 

"Defendants claim they are being victimized by Mrs. Bryant’s prosecution and public disclosure of this lawsuit," attorneys stated in their Monday filing with the Central District of California. "But Mrs. Bryant of course has every right to pursue discovery to find out how and why Sheriff’s Department personnel took and shared pictures of her daughter and husband’s remains. She has every right to seek to hold Defendants accountable for their actions and to file her lawsuit in the public record." Among the many claims she’s fighting is county attorneys’ notion that the sheriff’s deputies who shared photos among themselves and at least one member of the public inflicted only "hypothetical" harm on the Bryant family and family members of the other crash victims.