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CEO Tim Cook during the company's trial against Epic Games Inc. One recent challenge came earlier this year in trying to capture Apple Inc. Other highlights since then have included the Michael Jackson criminal trial in 2005, which ended in acquittal the Prop 8 trial in 2010, which cleared the way for gay marriage in California and Barry Bonds's 2011 steroid trial, which ended in an obstruction of justice conviction of the baseball superstar that was later overturned. Chosen as the pool illustrator for weeks-long jury selection in the case, her images were suddenly all over the news. Her first big break, she recalls, came during the late-1990s criminal trial of "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski in Sacramento federal court, which ended in a guilty plea. Behringer, the trial is the latest in a string of high-profile cases she's illustrated in her more than 30-year career. Her signature pen-and-ink and watercolor images have appeared nightly on television news, in newspapers and on media outlets across the internet, including The Wall Street Journal.įor Ms. Behringer is the public's primary source for visualizing the scene at the criminal fraud trial of Elizabeth Holmes. With cameras and audio recordings banned inside the federal courtroom, Ms. "It's easier-there's no nose, mouth or chin," said Vicki Behringer, a veteran courtroom sketch artist in Northern California who has attended every day of the Theranos trial. When it comes to capturing an entire courtroom with a quickly drawn sketch, the pandemic has had one unintended benefit.