Courtroom sketch

Courtroom sketch artists attend judicial proceedings as members of the public or as credentialed media depending on the venue and jurisdiction.

[2] Courtroom artists can quickly capture a moment on paper and then sell their work to media outlets who would otherwise be denied a visual record of the trial.

The entire set of courtroom sketches related to the Lindy Chamberlain trial were purchased by the National Museum of Australia from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

[5] Selected works of American court artists Richard Tomlinson and Elizabeth Williams are held at the Lloyd Sealy Library at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

[13] Additionally, the American Bar Association adopted Judicial Canon 35, which prohibited the use of motion or still cameras in the courtroom and was codified into law by the majority of states.

[8] Notable American courtroom artists include Howard Brodie, Marguerite Martyn, Bill Robles, Carole Kabrin, Aggie Whelan Kenny,[20] Elizabeth Williams, Jane Rosenberg,[21] Christine Cornell (WNBC and CNN), Art Lien (NBC, SCOTUSblog),[22] Marilyn Church (The New York Times),[23] Richard Tomlinson (WNEW-TV), and Joseph W. Papin (The New York Daily News).

Over the next 35 years while on retainer by various networks, he covered famous trials such as the Manson Family, Soledad Brothers, Angela Davis and Patty Hearst.

[7][29] Bill Robles is an Emmy Award-nominated[8] courtroom artist whose work includes covering the trials of Charles Manson, O. J. Simpson, Ted Kaczynski, Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, Richard Ramirez, Rodney King, and Michael Jackson.

[30] Aggie Whelan Kenny is a courtroom artist known for her work on covering the Supreme Court of the United States and trials including James Earl Ray, David Berkowitz, and Jerry Sandusky.

[38] Her sketches depicting the Sean Bell trial are held by the Lloyd Sealy Library at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

[6] Actor Terry Crews stated in an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live that his first job in the entertainment industry was as the courtroom sketch artist for WJRT in Flint, Michigan.

A courtroom sketch by Butch Krieger of an accused person flanked by two attorneys, drawn in about eight minutes.
An 1889 courtroom sketch from the trial of ex- Alderman Thomas Cleary, which was published in The New York Times .
Reporter-artist Marguerite Martyn made this sketch of spectators at the murder trial of Dora Doxey , printed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on 2 June 1910.