Should this womans past matter?

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Of course not. There's a big difference between someone's past being relevant and someone automatically being guilty because of their past.

The public views it differently, as my first post in this thread adressed. Especially when people are put on certain lists, as min pointed out. There is a Scarlet Letter haunting them for many years, if not for the reast of their lives. Again, not adressing that particular case, since I know too little about it. But the system in general.

It's important to make distinctions between someone not committing a crime at all, such as taking a piss in public, having a motif for commiiting a crime, such as my terrorist in my first post, or someone being a psycho- or sociopath getting of on committing crimes.