courtroom sketching Tag

07 Apr

Posted at 14:09h in Courtroom Sketches

Yesterday I was at the federal courthouse in St. Paul where lawyers from the NFL and the Players Union were arguing over the current breakdown of salary negotiations. I'm not a sports fan so I don't really have a dog in this fight. All I know is that whenever there's large amounts of money at stake (in this case billions...

08 Apr

Posted at 21:49h in Courtroom Sketches
[caption id="attachment_2199" align="aligncenter" width="395" caption="A witness in the Gamboa meth trial, Fargo ND"][/caption] Every once in a while I am hired by a local Minneapolis TV station to do courtroom sketches. Minnesota has a strict law forbidding cameras from all courtrooms so when big dramatic trials go down I often get a phone call. I enjoy courtroom sketching but it has its challenges. Here's some of the balls a courtroom artist needs to juggle: