Vanessa Bryant is seeking 75 million dollars in damages from Los Angeles County for invasion of privacy and negligence for the release of photos of the helicopter crash that killed her husband Kobe and daughter Gianna, along with seven others.
It has taken until the tenth day of the trial for attorney Jerome Jackson to present to the court the request for damages sought by Vanessa Bryant and Chris Chester (partner in the Bryant family lawsuit).
"When I get to this point in closing arguments, I'm usually anxious not to ask for too much," Jerome Jackson said in his plea to the jury, according to USA Today.
"But today I don't have that anxiety, because I will tell you, ladies and gentlemen, you can't give too much money for what they went through.
"You can't stack it too high. You can't spread it too thin. What they went through is inhumane."
The lawyer asked for up to 2.5m dollars for each of the two years of emotional distress, plus 1m dollars for each year of future distress.
Vanessa Bryant and the Kobe photos: I feel devastated, hurt and betrayed
In her court testimony Vanessa Bryant accused the authorities of illegally releasing photographs of the bodies of her husband Kobe and daughter Vanessa.
"I feel devastated, hurt and betrayed by the county employees who leaked the photos," Vanessa Bryant told a Los Angeles County court, adding that she has not yet seen the images because she wants to " them as they were".
During her testimony, Kobe Bryant's widow said she suffers emotional stress because of "fear" that she or her children will find "horrible images of their loved ones on the internet" in the future.
The origin of the photos of Kobe Bryant and Gianna's corpses
Close-up photos of Kobe Bryant and Gianna's bodies were shared on at least 28 Sheriff's Department devices.
Luis Li, Vanessa Bryant's attorney, alleged in court that an institutional "culture of insensitivity" led eight Los Angeles County deputies to take photos with their mobile phones and share them.
"The images were shared repeatedly with people who had absolutely no reason to receive those pictures. They took the photos to laugh at them as souvenirs," Li argued.
Vanessa Bryant's lawyer described the photographs as "images of mangled bodies, close-ups of limbs and burnt flesh".