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Once this precedent is established, future presidents from any party may not feel obliged to comply.

Yet once this precedent is established and a centuries-old tradition of justice broken, it will be much easier to hold trials in total secrecy in future.

And if the precedent is established that hitherto unitary states can be broken up by force, then his country and several others will be in deadly danger.

Moreover, since the policy is voluntary, no outside entity will have the authority to monitor whether the White House is applying exceptions appropriately and no future presidents will be formally bound by it, although it may be hard for them politically to make records secret again after the precedent is established.

He has concerns that "if precedent is established now, it would enshrine tough penalties as means of deterrence, which may contribute to the problem".

The precedent was established last year when the king removed his half-brother Prince Muqrin and appointed Bin Nayef crown prince.

"A clear and unquestionable precedent was established in the federal courts regarding this issue more than a decade ago on Long Island".

Whatever may or may not transpire, there is precedent for such an outpouring, and the precedent was established that day in Memphis.

The precedent was established in that infamous first year, when the awards were arrived at by something akin to horse-trading.

A malign precedent was established with the handling of the Venona decrypts, interceptions of ingeniously coded cables relayed to Moscow by Soviet agents posted in the United States.

But in a year when precedent was established to suspend athletes without a failed drug test, as in the Balco-related cases of Montgomery and Gaines, we should also recognize the possibility of the pendulum swinging too far.