Who Casts the First Stone?

The other day I was at work in the Police Department radio room, when we received a call of an unwanted person. It seemed that there was a known (and registered) sex-offender who was at a little league park watching a baseball game. The caller wanted this man to leave and since the man didn't want to, they called the police to remove him.
I have told people that my job can cause you to become rather jaded about what goes on in the word. But, in this particular instance, I felt differently. The people I work with, were as quick to pass judgement on this person as the people at the little league park. We pulled the person's picture up at the on-line site for registered sex-offenders in the community, and this person did look a little scary. The police were sent out and the man left on his own, without any kind of police involvement. But I could not shake a single thought rattling in my brain. "Was this person really doing something wrong?"
I mean, obviously this person had committed a wrongful act (with a minor) in the past, and that was why they were registered as a sex-offender. However, no one knew what it was, or if they had received the help necessary to solve the problem. I am pretty confident that there was not a computer terminal at the little league. So, the people were following along with the information of someone who knew of this person's past.
I kept thinking to myself, "sure someone can be found guilty of something and must face the consequences of their misdeed. But where is the point where we attempt to allow that person to try to show themselves as trustworthy again? My own children have done some very foolish things and may have broken my trust. They have also had to pay some serious consequences for what they did. But, does that mean that I can never trust them again? Certainly not.
Now I know some will say that I am comparing apples to oranges, but the day after this occurred, I was reading my Bible and found something interesting. I was reading in Deuteronomy 17. Moses is speaking to the Israelites before they cross the Jordan into the promised land. He reminds them of the laws and regulations God had established for them. In Chapter 17, verses 6 & 7, it says this:
"But only on the testimony of two or three witnesses may a person be put to death (by stoning). No one may be put to death on the testimony of one witness. The witnesses must throw the first stones in the execution, then the community joins in."
Jesus uses this very same regulation when confronted by the Pharisees. They had caught a woman in the act of adultery; a sexual offense of great magnitude in that day.
Jesus tells the crowd in John 8:7:
"If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."
One by one, they all leave, until the woman is left alone with Jesus. In my mind, I can see the men who surround this woman, thinking of how they are only there ready to kill this woman, because of what the Pharisees have told them. Did they really see it? Did more than one of them? Two or three? Did they burst in and catch her in the act? Who knew for sure? Jesus did. He was fully man, yet still fully God. He knew that even though this woman had been guilty of doing wrong, the people accusing her were not without their own sin. He knew that the Pharisees would never throw the first stone, but would rather depend on the angry crowd to do it for them. The Pharisee's were to be the first to cast the stones, and when they did not, the crowd could not. When confronted with their own sin, they knew they could not continue. They dropped their rocks and left. The woman was left alone with Jesus, who told her that he did not condemn her and told her, "Go now and leave your life of sin."
I wonder had Jesus been at that little league park the day this incident happened, how would it have played out? In today's world of hate, contempt and suspicion, is there no more room for the grace and love that Jesus showed us? And if we dare to boldly offer it, will it bring a change in those it is given? I hope so.