User talk:LenWosniak/sandbox

Julia's Peer Review Feedback

Wow! What an interesting and important case. The facts and procedural history are riveting. You do a great job distilling the case into key points: I feel confident that non-lawyers could read your "Decision" section and fully understand the issues, decision, and dissent in the case. Also, good job linking within Wikipedia.

A few big picture considerations: I'm left wondering how this cases fits into current Sixth Amendment jurisprudence and whether there have been any responses to this case (positive or negative). It's a recent case, but I imagine there might be some academic/scholarly writing addressing how this might affect some defendants. (For example, I wondered how this might affect defendants who are unfit to make a decision about their trial strategy -- but I don't enough about criminal law to know if there are already exceptions for mentally unfit defendants.) I'd also be curious whether this case is limited to the death penalty context or if it has wider relevance. In general, you might consider reviewing if there is any interesting commentary in secondary sources if you want to expand the Wiki a bit.

A few minor thoughts: Julialgreenberg (talk) 23:00, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
 * You might want to consider adding McCoy's age if it's relevant. His parents hiring an attorney for him stuck out to me as odd (but it also may be customary and unnecessary to get into that).
 * You may want to include a "Footnotes" or "References" header at the bottom. You might also include links to the opinion so a reader who does not have access to Westlaw/Lexis could still read it.
 * A few words stuck out to me as potentially jargony for a non-lawyer (e.g. acquitted, "to concede over," "death verdict"). These phrases are clear from context, but flagging as they jumped out to me.
 * I've also been wondering if there is anything else you might add to the Wiki to make it more interactive: no photos immediately come to mind (other than a photo of McCoy), but perhaps you could add photos of justices who wrote the majority/dissent or photos outside the Court if there were any protestors/supporters. I used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obergefell_v._Hodges as an example to think up some ideas. Also, you definitely could incorporate one of those side-bars with the highlights of the case (which it looks like already exists on the live page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_v._Louisiana).