why do they still do those hand drawn courtroom images?
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It can be very intimidating to testify about personal, intimate, scary, etc. moments in front of a sea of cameras and flashes. So a lot of courts do not allow recording devices into court. And if they do they usually limit it to before the trial when people walk into the courtroom and sometimes at sentencing. But it is still important for courts to be open so justice becomes transparent. So they do allow anyone to visit the court and sit inn on a trial. If there is any obvious injustice or corruption then people in the public will notice and bring this up to public discussion. This means that anyone can sit in the trial and draw a sketch. It might intimidate the witnesses a bit but it is hard to enforce a no-courtroom-sketch rule, and even then people can still draw sketches after they leave the court.
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