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Did you know... that in Blueford v. Arkansas, the
US Supreme Court allowed a man to be retried on murder charges after a jury unanimously voted to acquit him of those same charges?
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I considered that, since it's easy enough to look up court records from the Arkansas online system, but I thought
WP:BLP concerns, coupled with the fact that I could find no independent, secondary sources to cite to, overrode whatever value there was in mentioning the outcome of the case. Best, Kevin (aka
L235·t·c)
16:29, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
A fact from Blueford v. Arkansas appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 March 2018 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that in Blueford v. Arkansas, the
US Supreme Court allowed a man to be retried on murder charges after a jury unanimously voted to acquit him of those same charges?
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Supreme Court. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the
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I considered that, since it's easy enough to look up court records from the Arkansas online system, but I thought
WP:BLP concerns, coupled with the fact that I could find no independent, secondary sources to cite to, overrode whatever value there was in mentioning the outcome of the case. Best, Kevin (aka
L235·t·c)
16:29, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply