@gme Okay, maybe we have just been talking past each other due major differences in cultural and legal traditions.According to my limited understanding of German law - which follows the Civil Law tradition, like most European countries - if a court determines that you broke the law at some point in the last (based on the laws that were in force during that time), then the court merely formally acknowledges the fact that you were breaking the law at the time, instead of making you suddenly into a law-breaker at the time they pass their verdict.But it seems that the USA - which follows the Common Law tradition, like most of the Anglosphere - does this very, very differently.
