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Description	This image of Jasmine Richardson was released on April 23, 2006 when the Richardson murders occurred, and her whereabouts were unknown. Police were seeking the public's help in finding her. Not a suspect at the time, the media freely and legally released the photo and her name. On April 24, she was designated a suspect, arrested, and her name/image was withdrawn (persuant to Canada's Youth Criminal Justice Act).
Source	page image
Date	April 23, 2006 (date image was released to public, e.g. published, but the date taken is unknown)
Author	unknown
Permission (Reusing this image)	Image was released to public (though not public domain). It is assumed to be copyrighted.

Fair use is justified as this is a highly publicized image (or was on April 23). No possible commercial threat exists to copyright holder, as the image has never been used for any commercial purposes. The image, for a brief time, was widely distributed, and central to a major media event. The existence of the image, and moves to suppress it, are a significant part of the content of the Richardson family murders article. This is similar to other articles, where controversy surrounds the publication of an image, and the image itself, is therefore central to the story, and should be shown to illustrate what's being suppressed. This image is widely available on the internet, so we are not revealing anything private. As the Youth Criminal Justice Act only applies to Canada, it is believed the use of this image is legal in the U.S. and specifically in Florida, where the Wikipedia servers are located.

This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content#Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content#Audio clips. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Richardson family murders" :

To illustrate the subject in question
Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
On the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([1]),

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.

To the uploader: this tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use. You must also include the source of the work, all available copyright information, and a detailed non-free use rationale.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	15:57, 9 May 2006	140×200 (9 KB)	Yank4323 (Talk \| contribs)	(update of image to scale down (fairuse, also quality reason))
	15:50, 9 May 2006	280×400 (18 KB)	Yank4323 (Talk \| contribs)	({{Information\| \|Description=This image of Jasmine Richardson was released on April 23, 2006 when the Richardson murders occurred, and her whereabouts were unknown. Not a suspect at the the time, the media freely released the photo and her name. On A)