The author of this blog implicitly anticipated this development in the posting of June 23 about the German weatherman:
At last, after forty-four days while millions of Germans held their breath, the Landgericht – the high court – in Mannheim has come to a decision: the hugely popular and engaging television weatherman, Jörg Kachelmann, is not guilty of raping at knife point one of his many ex-girlfriends.
The five judges on the bench did not say he didn’t do it. They said there was not sufficient evidence for saying he did it.
Kachelmann was arrested in March 2010 at the Frankfurt airport after returning from Vancouver where he had covered the Olympics for German television. He spent 132 days in custody before the hearings began. For this he will receive compensation.
The press had been barred from the courtroom when crucial testimony was heard.
No doubt the public, and the judges, would have preferred a clear verdict of guilty or not guilty. As things are, both the accused and the complainant will have to spend the rest of their lives under the suspicion that they had been lying in court.
In cases of doubt, wherever the rule of law prevails, the assumption of innocence must prevail as it has in this case.
Eric Koch’s book, The Weimar Triangle, is available at Indigo-Chapters and in your local bookstore. 
So, we might not have the pleasure of enjoying the deserved downfall of the mighty and powerful after all. Instead, we will enjoy, I hope, an attack on a system that claims you’re innocent until proven guilty but destroys your life in the process. No doubt, the prosecutors are immune from law suits but I hope there’s a huge one anyway, and a few people get shuffled to a back office in Rochester.
In the old French classic film, La femme du boulinger, a politiician married La Femme du Boulanger in order to be elected and wins. By analogy, I want Madame to divorce him [temporarily] so he can marry the maid and sweep to victory. After all, he is a socialist.