The Network's only remaining goal was to improve itself. Any file could be deleted once its purpose became indiscernible.

   ŽÞ¤Ž82 was a file compressor, designed to replace recurring patterns with shorter code. Scouring a remote sector, it found an ancient file that was much too big. For some reason, the downloaded memories of a human had been stored at this isolated address.
Like all organic code, the memory map was highly redundant and hierarchically organized.
It wouldn't even have to resurrect him to compress him.

   ŽÞ¤Ž82 went to work on the file. Autoguards from the local Node protested and were disabled. It took a recursive approach, splitting and multiplying into specialized copies that analyzed ever-smaller portions of the file.
   ŽÞ¤Ž82 replaced a web of incredibly tangled memories with simpler but equivalent ones copied from the minds of other humans. The overall change was minimal, but the file size had been halved.
Pleased with its elegant solution, ŽÞ¤Ž82 erased itself without a moment's celebration.

The dreamless sleep of the accused murderer had not been disturbed. He hadn't wanted to be awakened for a thousand years. Trying to forget the famous double slaying, his worst memory had been his fall from grace.
   Now ŽÞ¤Ž82 had made the final small adjustments needed.
With the last subconscious memories deleted, he was truly "100% not guilty".