Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ernesto Miranda
both.  Not only were these cases leading cases in criminal procedure; these cases were so well known that they became household words and political issues.  This level of attention, which rose well above the norm for parties in important cases, generated curiosity about the individual litigants.  As such reliable sources stepped in to feed that curiosity.  Thus it came to pass that these two drifters and petty crooks had the sort of attention paid to their lives that meets the |basic standard for biography even if their chief claim to fame was only as parties to those cases.  Note also that the "|one-event" standard only applies to |biographies of living people, and therefore not to either of these articles; BLP is at any rate an ''exception'' to the general standards of both notability and sourcing, and as such should be strictly confined
— User:Ihcoyc, 14:18, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BIO||WP:ONEEVENT||WP:BLP (Wikipedia:Notability)