Category: NYC Trials
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Joseph Papin – John Gotti et al 1986 trial
This drawing by Joseph Papin is an interesting one – it reads, “Attorneys protest press coverage with clippings and front pages.” The people pictured are Judge Eugene H. Nickerson, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn Federal Court; from left to right, Richard Rehbock, attorney for defendant Wilfred Johnson; Barry Slotnick, one…
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Joseph Papin at the Mitchell-Stans Trial 1974
The caption for the drawing below reads: “Mitchell-Stans trial, 1974” and at the bottom, “Joseph Papin, F. Donald Nixon testifying at the conspiracy trial of John Mitchell and Maurice Stans.” It is one of Joseph Papin’s “overhead drawings” that he drew as if he had an overhead vantage place which he did not – he…
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Courtroom Art: An Interview with Joseph Papin, New York and Company, 1987 (Part 2)
(Second half of interview of Joseph Papin [JP] by Leonard Lopate [LL], Aired December 14, 1987) LL: “We’re talking with Joe Papin who is more than just a courtroom artist—we’ve introduced you as a courtroom artist—but you have illustrated Washington and UN scenes; military and international affairs; medical, financial, sports and industrial events. Your work…
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Courtroom Art: An Interview with Joseph Papin, New York and Company, 1987 (Part 1)
Interview by Leonard Lopate, New York and Company, Aired on December 14, 1987 (Transcribed and illustrated using Joseph Papin’s work, J Papin, 2021) Joseph Papin, F. Donald Nixon testifying at the conspiracy trial of John Mitchell and Maurice Stans, 1974Joseph Papin’s drawing of the Mitchell Stans trial (reproduced above and drawn from his seat at…
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Recent Connections – Joseph Papin’s Coverage of the Pizza Connection Trial
A cousin recently sent me some things that Joseph Papin had given to one of his brothers. One was a publication I had not seen before – the U.S. Federal Marshals Service journal, The Pentacle. It included a drawing Joe Papin had done of the Pizza Connection trial; another was a copy of a cartoon…
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Joseph Papin at the Wedtech Trial – NY Daily News and the Riverdale Press
Joseph Papin covered the Wedtech Trial for both the Daily News and the Riverdale Press. His drawing of the courtroom below is one of the ones that he drew from an overhead perspective while sitting at ground level: Daily News: August 5, 1988 “The Defendants Listen as jury forewoman reads the verdicts.” Joe Papin’s political…
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Joseph Papin: Southern District of NY Federal Courthouse
Joseph Papin, Southern District of New York Thurgood Marshall United States Federal Courthouse Note that the Southern District Court now meets in both the Southern District of New York Thurgood Marshall United States Federal Courthouse and the new Daniel Patrick Moynihan Southern District of New York Federal Courthouse (built in 1993). “On November 3, 1789,…