A woman who assaulted a reporter in American Samoa as he was trying to snap a photograph of her as she left the district court has been charged with assault over the incident.
District Court Judge John Ward told the defendant Meloma Levu that the photographer was within his rights to take the photograph.
The woman attacked the man with a bag.
Ms Levu had been at the court concerning an earlier assault charge for allegedly threatening a neighbour with a knife over a land dispute.