Share Public defenders raised the issue in a motion titled 'Motion to Remove Portraiture Overwhelmingly Depicting White Jurists Hanging in Trial Courtroom.' 'While to some the issue of portraits might be a trivial matter, to those subject to the justice system it is far from the case,' Bernhard wrote in his ruling, issued Sunday. He said he was concerned that the portraits 'may serve as unintended but implicit symbols that suggest the courtroom may be a place historically administered by whites for whites.' Attorneys stand in front of portraits of white jurists in a Fairfax County courtroom