Were some of them previously baptized? Helaman 16:1

Were some of them previously baptized? Helaman 16:1

Samuel the Lamanite preaches to the wicked Nephites and gets a lot of converts wanting to be baptized. They look for Nephi II, confess their sins, and ask to be baptized.

It's highly possible and perhaps even likely that some of those people who repented had become so wicked that they would have been "cut off" from the church and needed to be rebaptized.

Answer:
Maybe.