Both Uses of
precedent
in
Nineteen Minutes
- You've got all of these competing factors-the parties involved, the victims, law enforcement, society, even precedent-and you somehow have to use them to solve the problem within a given framework.'†
Chpt 1
- And all of them had to be considered in the context of precedent.†
Chpt 1 *
Definition:
an example from a prior time -- typically used to justify similar occurrences at a later time (especially a judicial decision)