Had it been a criminal trial you'd have a point, it wasn't.
What you are saying is that if an act of rape is brought to the attention of the authorities after the statue of limitations expire leaving only civil charges available, a conviction on those civil charges based on a jury finding they did occur, means that at the time the rape was criminally chargeable you get to consider him not guilty of being a criminal them. Anybody not profoundly interested in denial they voted for a criminal rapist on that basis would see the deceptive self denial of moral judgment required to maintain face.
Moral certainty at such a fanatical level implies a profound fear of being shamed. Nobody feels such a fear who has not been so shammed in the past and requited to repress any such conscious awareness.
Listen carefully to what I am about to say. It's a description of the psychological facts that create the prison you and most of us are in, without which knowledge it would never enter you are your in fact in a prison much less that there are a number of avenues of escape from it:
Being put down for non conformity to authoritarian rule, getting in trouble with your parents as a child, being so full of love and life they had to kill you to keep from feeling how dead their own lives were and remembering their own childhood pain, resulted in you being told in no uncertain terms you had go to sleep like them and that was done by threat and shame, being exposed to physical and psychological pain, told by being put down with words that you as you were were no good and that you had to conform. And you did have to to survive because back then you had no defensed whatsoever and could experience pain to it's human limits. We were made to feel as bad as we can possibly feel, or that we are the worst person in the world.
Well, where we died is where we unconsciously wish to return because life ended at that point so finding lost joy is our inner imperative so like moths to flames we recreate what we fear to feel it again, but our fears are too great. We create it only vicariously doomed forever to recreating our own horror show, the way out hidden somewhere there. We are magnetized, drawn close and then rejecting, repulsed and attracted endlessly in this hell. We seek redemption convinced we are unworthy of it, our catch 22.
Unless you realize that you are what you eat, that your emotional state is self created, that you react rather than understand, you will not seek a way out unless your life reaches some form of bottoming out or some inner awareness haunts you to seek.
Tradditionally wisdom is taught in schools depending of psychological type of the seeker. The enemy, of course is fear.
1 The way of the body or the faker who practices self torture and in this way achieves mastery over physical misery.
2 The way of the Monk who raises his love of God to the point is own love become like that of the god worshiped absent any fear.
3 The way of the form of Yoga that defeats the fear that is the product of thought by repetitive meditation, the conquering of the fear of being present in the now.
You might take a psychedelic and puncture through temporarily or wander off into some imaginary hell.
Any of the three can be combined to produce 7 fundamental approaches.
Then there is psychotherapy where you enter the darkness and retrieve your lost memories and grieve for yourself, an act that creates healing and reintegration with you real long lost self and begin to learn and rebuild
In our Wstern tradition the way of the Monk can still be found hidden in the Christian religion. Everything you feel ashamed of has been forgiven, go and sin no more. But the danger there is that people who think they believe are simply using concepts and words to pretend they were never guilty. Self awareness is self confession and for the honest can be done without a priest.
The way you think is what sin is all about, a attachment to the idea that good and evil exist. You were never guilty of anything as everything you did you had to do to survive. You are not equipped with information with which you can forgive your self for shame you never should have been made to feel. There is nobody you can blame and nobody who can blame you.
As Meher Baba said, relax and be happy. The truth is just so profoundly simple. Suffering is a delusional self created mental state, a belief in lies as if they were true.