Talk:Morissette v. United States

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I will be working on this article. Please don't mistake this for vandalism. Non Curat Lex 00:56, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm. Something's missing.

M was convicted, first in a trial court, presumably a U.S. District Court. The conviction was appealed to a federal appeals court. Which circuit was it? From there the case was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. 2600:8801:BE01:7C00:8E2D:DAEA:B00E:D545 (talk) 04:28, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Lead section clean-up

The Lead section of this article is too long and detailed. It should be a summary of the detail in the body of the article, highlighting only the essential points. As a reader, I feel I want to stop at the end of the opening paragraph and insert a heading like "Summary of facts", to divide an excellent summary of the case from an excellent summary of the facts about the particular case, that I don't really need to know if I don't want to read any further. While lead sections can be up to four sections long, length of the lead section also needs to be proportionate to the overall length of the article. The current readable prose size of this article is significantly less than the article's ~8,000 character length might suggest, with more than half the article's text being in the lead, the lead is much too long. Advice that quality lead sections are generally less than 300 words, irrespective of article size and complexity, indicates the lead for this article should be limited to the first paragraph and perhaps one other. See MOS:LEAD and MOS:LEADLENGTH. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 23:14, 25 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]