Two cases in Judge Gerald Fisher’s courtroom :
The first, pictured above, was a preliminary hearing at which surveillance videos were played of the robbery, and murder of Prabhjot Singh at a check-cashing store.
WRC story here
Later in the day Ingmar Guandique , the accused killer of Chandra Levy, appeared before Judge Fisher during a pre-trial hearing to discuss the jury pool.
WaPo story here.
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Courtartist is me, Art Lien. I've been sketching the courts since 1976, and for most of that time the U.S. Supreme Court has been my regular beat. I've been working almost exclusively for NBC News since 1980. Courtroom sketching is a form of visual journalism or reportage drawing that is slowly dying out. Where once upon a time news organization each had their own artist covering a story, today a "pool" artist often sketches for all. It is a demanding and stressful discipline where the drawing is often done directly and under tight deadline.
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