From Nine to Noon 13 June 2014
Gary Myrick has been a courtroom sketch artist in Texas for 40 years – covering some of America's most sensational trials, including the Branch-Davidian arraignments and the Paula Jones vs Bill Clinton case.
He is one of a dying breed, as more US courts use video cameras to record events. But Gary Myrick feels the human touch he puts on things is vital, "I’m trying to draw to communicate to those that aren’t there, what it was like to be there. And maybe some of that has been getting lost".
Paula Corbin Jones is a former Arkansas state employee who sued U.S. President Bill Clinton for sexual harassment. Clinton entered into an out-of-court settlement, agreeing to pay Jones and her attorneys a total of $850,000, before the lawsuit was dismissed pre-trial on the grounds that Jones failed to demonstrate damages.
Darlie Routier and her husband, Darin, lived in a nice new house in Rowlett and were "living large", as he described it. But by 1996 they'd gone into debt, and his business was failing. That's when two of their children were murdered.
Witness in Darlie Routier trial
Witness in Darlie Routier trial
Darlie Routier - convicted in murders of her two boys
T. Cullen Davis was the Texas OJ Simpson. In 1977 he was the wealthiest man in American history ever to be tried for capital murder, and he was found not guilty.
Witness in T. Cullen Davis murder-for-hire trial, Fort Worth
Hard to stay awake - jury in T. Cullen Davis murder-for-hire trial, Houston
Dena Schlosser was a Plano mother who killed her baby in 2004. This image was the first thing I saw when I walked in the courtroom. The feeling emanating from her was just ghastly.
Jury hearing the case of Don Dixon, defendant in Savings & Loan scandal
James Grigson (born 1932 in Texarkana, Texas; died 2004), known as "Doctor Death", was a Texas forensic psychiatrist who testified in 167 capital trials, nearly all of which resulted in death sentences.
Genene Jones - a former pediatric nurse who killed up to 46 infants and children in her care.
"And there was this woman, a cocktail waitress from Las Vegas who reminded me of a '58 Cadillac."
Pamela Fielder was accused of killing her husband, a prominent Fort Worth gynaecologist named Darwin.
Hi-tech comes to the courtroom during the trial of Paul Fielding, a Dallas city councilman convicted on federal corruption charges.
"Whitewater" defendant James McDougal
Branch-Davidian arraigned during Waco siege
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