Talk:Kevin Coe

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[edit] The May 2008 rewrite

It's nice that somebody thought to create this article. And the citation of the Kevin Coe portal page at the local newspaper was a boon. But the article as I found it today was irresponsible. You can't say somebody did this and did that about things they haven't even been indicted for, let alone convicted. And it seemed that the authors had Coe confused with another criminal, because they said he molested a child while living in Las Vegas with his second wife when in fact Coe married his second wife while he was in prison -- in Washington State! The article also just wasn't very informative, even though there's been enough details of the case available on the Web.

Suggestions for further improvement. I would like to know what impact the two trips to the state Supreme Court had on criminal law in that state: police tactics, prosecutor tactics; particularly, it would seem those two Supreme Court rulings would have killed off the use of hypnosis in criminal investigations in that state. That would be important to have in this article. Another possible gap in the article is long term effects on residents of Spokane, if there were any.

I think the article is good enough to remove it from the Stub class. This topic merits only a short article. I wonder what the class parameter should be instead, now that it's not Stub. Hurmata (talk) 05:22, 5 May 2008 (UTC)