Halyna Hutchins' family has a request for Sheriff Adan Mendoza. The same week that the Santa Fe Sheriff's Office released previously unseen footage, photos and interviews from the fatal shooting, ET obtained an email via a source in which the family of the late cinematographer asks the sheriff's office to take down a video of the her death.
In the email, the family's attorney, Brian Panish, writes that, by releasing the materials, the sheriff's office «trampled on the constitutional rights» of Matt and Andros Hutchins -- the late cinematographer's husband and son.
ET has reached out to the office for further comment.Panish claims that the sheriff's office had previously «promised to allow Mr.
Hutchins to review the materials being publicly released in advance of their dissemination to the press,» but then changed their mind to give him «less than a business day to review the materials,» which the attorney deems «wholly inadequate… given the sheer volume of material.» It also, Panish writes, «failed to give the Hutchins the 'dignity and privacy' the New Mexico constitution affords them including the right to request that discretion be exercised, and sensitive material be redacted.»Panish alleges that «even this arrangement was violated when your office released the materials to the public before releasing the materials to Mr.
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