How Many Cops Saw DWI Suspect's Nude Cell Photos?

A crucial detail in a driving-while-intoxicated case against a Texas woman has turned out to be not that police officers looked at naked images of her downloaded from her phone, but how many officers were shown the images of the suspect. The nude images of the woman were downloaded from her cell phone onto an officer’s handheld device, after she was pulled over, and then reportedly passed around. The original officers were canned last November.

The woman's trial is set for June 28, but whether more than just former officers Christopher Green and George Miller saw the photos – which Green maintains he downloaded to his own handheld device thinking they might be usable as evidence – was the subject of a June 9 court hearing.

The trial judge has yet to rule on the photos and their audience.

"I think he's trying to show that there's been unusual behavior on the part of my client. In fact, the unusual behavior was on the part of the officers for copying these photos on his PDA and showing them to other people. That's the unusual part," said the woman's attorney, Ned Gill, to Houston television station KTRK, an ABC affiliate.

Gill told the station he and his client believe more people saw the images than just the four others claimed by Green and Miller. Green told the hearing he showed the images first to a sheriff's deputy working in the courtroom, during a discussion of unusual DWI cases, and then to another Houston police officer, an assistant district attorney, and Houston police chemist Rick Visor, according to KTRK.

Visor was quoted as telling the hearing he remembered the photos being passed to several officers whose names he couldn't remember. Green's attorney, Rusty Hardin, was quoted as saying it was unusual to do so but not strange.