Legally, it is as if the person were never accused. When God forgives our sins, our record is wiped clean. It is as though we had never sinned. God's grace is available to all regardless of circumstances. Your past does not equal your future.
Grace happens with uncomprehendable, unpredictable beauty and power.
A watermelon seed doesn't look like much, but every one of them has the power to draw two hundred thousand times its weight from the ground and through itself. A watermelon seed doesn't look like much, but everyone of them has the power to produce beauty. Artists like to paint those dark green outlines against white rinds that curve gently against bright red meat thickly inlaid with shiny black seeds that stand like soldiers at attention and point to the crisp, red, sweet, thirst quenching heart. If you were holding a watermelon seed in your hand, you would look at it and wonder how the love of God can do so much with so little. You cannot comprehend what God can do with you.