The way the prosecution is dismissing these cases at the appellate level means no binding precedent will attach. There's another legal notion, though, called "p

The way the prosecution is dismissing these cases at the appellate level means no binding precedent will attach. There's another legal notion, though, called "persuasive precedent", which, while not binding, does often tend to guide the judgement of peer courts. I'm not sure if the demands from trial and appellate judges to release the code, and the dismissals the State resorts to in order to avoid that outcome can properly be taken as precedential, however, persuasive or otherwise.