from Fuchs
Past achievements must never influence a sanction for illegal behaviour. You cannot accumulate legal goodwill that way. There's no rule of law if you could / can, for law simply doesn't recognise accumulated goodwill.
It only recognises jail time served innocently as accumulated goodwill, and only so to some extent.
in a subject matter area that tends to be dreary.

You don't know how funny this really is.

Regards

Mike