Judge Sets Camera Rules

By Steve Henson

Dec. 5, 2003 12 AM PT

Judge Terry Ruckriegle decided Thursday to allow video cameras in front of the Eagle County, Colo., courthouse and in the hallway leading to the courtroom for a Dec. 19 motions hearing in the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case.

Legal analysts say defendants are not always required to appear at motions hearings in Colorado. However, Bryant’s attorneys have not asked Ruckriegle that the Laker star be excused from attending.

The Lakers play at home against the Denver Nuggets on Dec. 19, a Friday.

-- Steve Henson

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Steve Henson is a reporter with the Fast Break sports team at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an assistant editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club and has been honored several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

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