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I'm not sure what the current style guidelines are for court case articles, but to my ears the article sounds very formal and stilted, with a lot of "counsel" and "defendant". Very apropos for legal briefs/specialist writing, but it sounds very stuffy for a general encyclopedia, in my opinion. That said, once the article disappears from the main page, I doubt that non-legally-inclined people (such as myself) will visit the page with any frequency, so a specialist tone may indeed be appropriate. Just something to think about. -- 19:41, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
I don't know what the guidelines are. There are not many good articles to imitate. Here is a few I can find. Some are enormously long but I cannot, at the moment, find one of those.
In any case, the article is about mental health law and is meant for reference to articles of interest to forensic psychology, such as competency evaluation, including competency to be executed, mitigating factors, etc. so they are probably not of much interest to attorneys. These cases are vital to forensic mental health practitioners, however. -- Mattisse 20:03, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
I wanted to add a 'subsequent events' section discussing his rehearing. Must have concluded with a life sentence since he doesn't appear to be on death row in Maryland nor is he on the list of the executed. There are eight people named Wiggins in prison in Maryland as of this writing. Any information is appreciated. Tempshill ( talk) 05:39, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
A fact from Wiggins v. Smith appeared on Wikipedia's
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I'm not sure what the current style guidelines are for court case articles, but to my ears the article sounds very formal and stilted, with a lot of "counsel" and "defendant". Very apropos for legal briefs/specialist writing, but it sounds very stuffy for a general encyclopedia, in my opinion. That said, once the article disappears from the main page, I doubt that non-legally-inclined people (such as myself) will visit the page with any frequency, so a specialist tone may indeed be appropriate. Just something to think about. -- 19:41, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
I don't know what the guidelines are. There are not many good articles to imitate. Here is a few I can find. Some are enormously long but I cannot, at the moment, find one of those.
In any case, the article is about mental health law and is meant for reference to articles of interest to forensic psychology, such as competency evaluation, including competency to be executed, mitigating factors, etc. so they are probably not of much interest to attorneys. These cases are vital to forensic mental health practitioners, however. -- Mattisse 20:03, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
I wanted to add a 'subsequent events' section discussing his rehearing. Must have concluded with a life sentence since he doesn't appear to be on death row in Maryland nor is he on the list of the executed. There are eight people named Wiggins in prison in Maryland as of this writing. Any information is appreciated. Tempshill ( talk) 05:39, 28 February 2009 (UTC)