That's not how justice works. To name just one example, repeat offenders are always punished more harshly than first-timers, and yet the fact that they did som

That's not how justice works. To name just one example, repeat offenders are always punished more harshly than first-timers, and yet the fact that they did something in the past doesn't change the act for which they are judged in any way; but (rightly or wrongly) the justice system thinks it illustrates who they are. It's always a person who is judged.