Courtroom sketches

David Hicks:

http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/images/hicks-drawing400.jpg

Paris Hilton, believe it or not.

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/01GO5LI9Mv3Zk/610x.jpg

Britney

http://www.etonline.com/media/photo/2007/10/33917/400_bspears_metaldetector_msedwards_071026.jpg

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00795/SNN0411DAD-280_795631a.jpg

Abbie Hoffman:

http://www.petelit.com/images/2007/09/18/hoffman.jpg

Tim Russert:

http://www.courtartist.com/images/2008/06/13/blibby0208_russert_libby_copy.jpg

yeah i've seen the paris one. the brit one is hot!

http://www.committeeforlegislativeaction.org/blago3.jpg

Is this ILX's own N/A?

http://i40.tinypic.com/1gnczn.jpg

Why is Lisa Kudrow pouring water on a priest? Is that Paul MacCartney next to her?

Next to the priest, I mean.

There's a link to the explanation 6 posts later: she's his lawyer and Lisa Kudrow is his ex-wife.

Ah, okay. Is the "priest" outfit some sort of traditional British barrister dress?

I don't think it is, but it is quite strange: http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/03_03/McCartney1703_468x849.jpg

(note the fresh marihuana plant he's always carrying :-) )

hey, pleasant plains. do you know john kushmaul (sp?)? he was a courtroom sketch artist for a time here for the local tv station he used to work for. forget which one.

How can one get a job doing courtroom sketches? I wld be very good at it.

I know John well. He was a sketch artist for the Susan McDougal trial. I tried to find one of his, but none of them are online. He was on CNN and everything! There was another trial he sketched for, though I can't remember what it would have been. Something federal here in town.

Abbot, our friend just grabbed a seat in the gallery, drew his sketch and sold it to the networks. He had to show up pretty early, and I don't know what kind of arrangements he went through to get all of his art stuff in there.

Huh! Maybe I could just do it for fun.

that 1 woman's suit jacket is kinda nuts

― surm, Monday, June 29, 2009 1:32 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

I'm pretty sure that was one of the victims who spoke -- she was all "EXCUSE me Judge Chin, I WAS NEXT. It's MY TURN TO SPEAK."

Abbot, our friend just grabbed a seat in the gallery, drew his sketch and sold it to the networks. He had to show up pretty early, and I don't know what kind of arrangements he went through to get all of his art stuff in there.

i didn't know he did it freelance! cool.

You're way too good for this, Abbott. But maybe it could be a way to get noticed?

It's one arena where I wldn't have to feel I was competing with giants whose quality I cld never achieve.

I also only just learned that these people don't actually work for the court. Outside the court today there was a sketch on a stand right in front of the door and a camera crew all around it -- I guess they didn't want to wait until they got the drawing back to the studio or something. It was very surreal looking though.

Does anyone understand the perspective in this one? Is the bald officer sitting to the right of the Dutch terrorist or behind him?

http://www.depers.nl/UserFiles/Image/2008/200808/20080822/ANP%20TEKENING%20JAN%20HENSEMA_samir%20A.jpg

Could be one for Up-the-arse corner

If you imagine the blue bit to be the officer's jeans, rather than the terrorist's chair.

I think I'll start bringing Prismacolors to work and doing these as practice.

Wait, why does the witness get to look at a computer screen?

I think that's one of the judges (black toga, just like the other one)

Dutch judges look like this:

http://images.volkskrant.com/enuser/www/en_img/2009/02/img-090209-138.onlineBild.jpg

Isn't there a person in court who writes down everything that's being said? Maybe that's him.

The STENOGRAPHER, a damn fine job.

Lawyers wear those togas too (same accused, same sketcher)

http://www.nrc.nl/multimedia/archive/00071/samirA3__1__5652_71270a.jpg

i love courtroom sketches

the computer screen is for the document projector in case they have to talk about a document

thx

His glasses are all wrong too - how can we see the right glass? (in the drawing with the bald officer)

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/02oRcNA5Pv5ky/610x.jpg

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2007/12/11/alg_vick-sketch.jpg

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2008/08/06/alg_sketch.jpg

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/06nEdpJ1Gz2HW/520x.jpg

Interviewing the victim:

http://www.ad.nl/multimedia/archive/00081/Spong_bepleit_vrijsp_81352a.jpg

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/05nh31M2vPgnV/520x.jpghttp://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0dv68I592ccQH/520x.jpg

Gift that keeps on, etc

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2008-12/43791916.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/187/422063500_dd6b6c6794.jpg

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2008/02/23/gal_jane-rosenberg_4.jpg

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2008/02/23/gal_jane-rosenberg_7.jpg

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2008/02/23/gal_jane-rosenberg_5.jpg

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2008/02/23/gal_jane-rosenberg_9.jpg

scared to think what that tiny broom was for

Dutch Courtrooms:

http://www.willemswereld.nl/thumbs/LAROOY%20Ivry%20251108%20copy_720x523.jpg
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http://www.willemswereld.nl/thumbs/Tarik%20B%20copy_720x476.jpg

Some courtroom sketch artists are good enough to have their own book.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8141x5oyOwL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg

This courtroom sketch artist can take the rest of the day off ... because these are just epic. pic.twitter.com/3eLJ3AoZgs

— Ryan Parker (@TheRyanParker) November 26, 2024

Even before clicking I knew it had to be Rudy.

The purple background highlighting was an inspired choice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqf-wLAPK8Q

While we’re on lunch break in the Madigan case, behold the before and after sketches of Deno Perdiou, the AT&T exec whose testimony was interrupted after he fell down a flight of marble stairs and his his head on a railing.
By the great courtroom artist Lou Chukman pic.twitter.com/qk42b2YvZo

— Jason Meisner (@jmetr22b) December 18, 2024

love it

Aw yeah:

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wie6s34baaupvunlv6dfxxqx/bafkreib63h5d4dsgb3z6pi6prz5ifu23jg3x6wv4pubjeme6lrcyqlrznm@jpeg

holy fuck

It's amazing how Trump continually destroys people who work for him and yet more people willingly flock to fill their places. To coin a phrase, "wake up, sheeple!"

Shades of Munch

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/10/03/19/102688935-15160491-image-a-63_1759516705465.jpg

https://www.instagram.com/p/DPWenkZjY80/

^relevant Stan Kelly cartoon

“cartoonist angry that the courtroom sketch artist was incompetent and also I now have problems with the verdict due to the bad courtroom artist” is an amazing Kelly bit

I didn't know what the "innocent koalas" thing was about: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/sean-diddy-combs-tells-courtroom-artist-he-looks-like-koala-sketches-2025-06-05/

Oh we got something here, folks. To quote the Bluesky post starting the thread:

Um...so I accidentally stumbled onto the UVA law library's collection of 6,000 drawings by courtroom sketch reporter Ida Libby Dengrove, who worked in NYC mostly in the '70s & '80s, & they're kind of...amazing..??

https://archives.law.virginia.edu/resources/184198/object/94394

But here are some featured choices -- "Clown Attack"

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rtjcwrrc6f2lkildglhz3zyj/bafkreiespoeclbadns76hjz6ypy2lotjoxblx4u34kj7txtlinmwnmogpe

"Voodoo Doll"

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rtjcwrrc6f2lkildglhz3zyj/bafkreicszg26qitfvnggfadrtn74wbptcoyqilvgzsbrbdb3pg5ejg4kmi

Also, this amazing detail from that general page:

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rtjcwrrc6f2lkildglhz3zyj/bafkreibfiou2ttx2plwzsb63kv4jweabhcn6j6mun5w2xqscvcc4iraqi4

thanks!!!!!

(UVA grad here, but ASchool not law)

I was at the Clown Attack and that's a pretty accurate depiction of what went down