A US federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the lawsuit which claims that NBC is responsible for the suicide of a Texas prosecutor two years ago can move on.

Louis Conradt, 56, an assistant district attorney in Rockwell County, Tex., shot himself in November 2006 when police officers came to his house to arrest him for soliciting a minor online. An NBC news crew accompanied police which was there to film his arrest for the series "To Catch a Predator," a segment of NBC’s “Dateline” newsmagazine program.

The lawsuit, of $105 million, was filled by Patricia Conradt, Louis Conradt’s sister, who said that the network was guilty for his death and for ruining his reputation.

The show drew many critics saying that it is a sort of trap and questioned NBC’s partnership with an online group called Perverted-Justice.

The news crew was outside Conradt’s home when he committed suicide. Three months later a segment on the suicide was broadcast.

Judge Denny Chin of Federal District Court in Manhattan said some of the claims can proceed to trial.

He wrote: “If the allegations of the amended complaint are proven a reasonable jury could find that NBC crossed the line from responsible journalism to irresponsible and reckless intrusion into law enforcement,” the New York Times reports.

"Rather than merely report on law enforcement's efforts to combat crime, NBC purportedly instigated and then placed itself squarely in the middle of a police operation pushing the police to engage in tactics that were unnecessary and unwise, solely to generate more dramatic footage for a television show," he added.

Spokeswoman for NBC Jenny Tartikoff said that the evidence will show that “Dateline” acted “responsibly and lawfully.”

She said in a statement: "The judge's ruling was based solely on the plaintiff's version of the facts. For purposes of this motion only, the judge was required, under the law, to accept the plaintiff's allegations as true," Reuters reports.