They all look the same. The people only have a passing similarity to the humans they are supposed to represent. If you didn’t already know who you were looking at, you’d not recognize most of the people.
Why not just get Allen Iverson to do it?
They all look the same. The people only have a passing similarity to the humans they are supposed to represent. If you didn’t already know who you were looking at, you’d not recognize most of the people.
Why not just get Allen Iverson to do it?
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It is pretty outdated.
Tell me you don’t know about when cameras are not allowed, judicial decorum or privacy rules prohibit photography, or security, intimidation concerns, or witness protection laws, and documentation purposes of sketches.
Not that you’ll read it, as you obviously don’t care enough to do your research:
> One of the first “courtroom sketches” depicted Mary, Queen of Scots, entering the courtroom in 1586 to face charges of treason.
> Courtroom drawing as we know it in the United States was born in response to the 1935 media circus over the kidnapping and killing of aviator Charles Lindbergh’s infant son. After newsreel cameras, noisy shutters, tripods, and bright flashing lights overtook the court, the American Bar Association put forth a ban on cameras—leaving news outlets to seek alternate means of coverage.
> The turning point came with the so-called trial of the century: the O. J. Simpson murder case in 1994. Following the request for transparency by both the defense and prosecution, presiding judge Lance A. Ito boldly allowed a single television camera into his court.
> But Ito’s decision totally backfired. As Edwards recalls, witnesses underwent complete makeovers between the preliminary hearings and the actual trial, with housekeepers entering the courts “completely done up”; lawyers started positioning their lecterns for optimal camera angles. “It was a circus.”
> And perhaps most significantly, they possess an untouchable ability to edit and distill the day’s drama and emotion into a single frame.
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> In some jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, courtroom artists are not permitted to sketch proceedings while in court and must create sketches from memory or notes after leaving the courtroom.
To sum up: a lot of courts don’t like allowing media in because it makes the trial into a show instead of a ‘due process of law’. Sketch artists are a happy medium, which allow for a visual representation of events in the court room without the intrustion and distraction of a camera.