Come on. This courtroom artist can't be serious with this goofy ass depiction of Luigi. The nose, the skin tone, the thin neck. Did I miss the memo? Are Italians no longer white? lmao

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[–] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 51 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Federal and some states (in this case NY) forbid cameras in courtrooms, hence the drawings. I'm sure there's some antiquated BS reason for it that I can't be bothered to look up.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The common justification I hear for this is to avoid making a trial a media spectacle. If there is no camera then you can't act for the camera

[–] KoboldKomrade@hexbear.net 44 points 2 days ago

Which is BS because its a spectle anyway. Only thing no cameras does is protect the judge when they decide to be a fash.

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 40 points 2 days ago

It's because there was some courtroom incident where it was absolutely flooded with independent photographers and they caused some sort of incident

I don't know why they didn't just say "okay we got one guy whose job it is to take pictures" instead of calling up a fucking art school