It's important to really understand the word «bestseller,» because as we've seen with the recent Amazon crackdown
of using terms like «bestseller» on your book cover (read more on this
here), it can be a
slippery slope.
University
of Minnesota law professor Dale Carpenter also sees a
slippery slope at play
here, but his is judicial rather than legislative and starts from the unstable middle ground on which the state based its defense
of traditional marriage.
Concerning, prosecution argument (iii), Bingham f lags up his concerns that the criminal courts have sadly slid down the
slippery slope to the point where, as
here, witnesses can give anonymous evidence, with the assistance
of excessively draconian «protective measures», which cumulatively consign the defendant's right to a fair trial, to the legal dustbin, «by a series
of small steps, largely unobjectionable on their own facts, the courts have arrived at a position which is irreconcilable with long - standing principle.»