I really don't like it when people "confront" me like that with things I already talked about, but fine, I'll make an exception.
This has nothing to do with my lawyer or myself. The investigating police officer already checked my stuff, we don't know if they checked everything yet but we know that my stuff has been checked already. The investigating police officer thinks she found something incriminating on my phone, then started to look into my games, checked my SSD that only contains renderfiles for DAZ3D and says that, given the fact she only has access to 91x91 pixel big unrendered previews of characters and scenes, some of those characters seem "too young". ( In one case it was Lena, in another case it was Sabrina, and then of course Olivia. Those were the only ones ). This is why I'm not getting my stuff back at the moment, because she thinks ( and it's only her from what we know so far ) there is incriminating stuff on it. The procedure then is that the state attorney has to check if those files are actually incriminating, and then they either confirm or deny it. The second part didn't happen yet, my lawyer send multiple requests to get a statement of the state attorney regarding that and they have been ignored so far. There is two ways this can go. The state attorney says "no, this is fine, what the fuck, you can't make anything out on these pictures ( which is the likely case, if you ever worked in daz3d you know these thumbnails ) or they say "yeah, she is right." If this will be the case, we can go to a judge and they will have to make a decision which will most likely end up being in my favor. Thats why I dont have my stuff back yet, because this one person thinks there is illegal stuff on it ( they cant give you something back that could contain illegal stuff in their eyes ).
The thing is, the state attorney has been "ignoring" our requests lately. Before Christmas my lawyer asked for an update on the case file, which has been unanswered. He asked again before easter, which was also ignored. After some digging and asking other lawyers ( and people that know stuff about the law in Germany ), this usually means there is nothing new in the case file and they don't think we need an update. Which is pretty fucking stupid to not just say so, but the don't have to say anything.
And to summarize how law enforcement works here: They take your shit and dump it in the chamber for at least 6 months, sometimes up to a year. Then they will mirror your harddrives ( they dont work with the original ), and check those mirorred copies of your harddrives/phone. This process is very time consuming, apparently, because they use fucking ancient software ( keep in mind that all of my PCs only had m2 ssds, so they might be even more slower because they dont know how to work with them etc ). Their software to look for incriminating stuff is ancient as well. From my understanding, it will detect nudity and then a police officer has to say "Okay, this is just a naked woman" or "Okay, this is problematic."
Heres the catch: None of my games feature anything that is even remotely illegal in Germany. I got a confirmation regarding this by several people that work as lawyers or have a good knowledge about the law. Even a character like Olivia, who a lot of people here think looks too young, would be fine to have a nude render of, since it's clearly visible she is fictional. The only exception would be if she would be in an obvious sexual render, like getting fucked or something. I don't have anything like that. The only thing I have is when you load characters into daz3d ( at least in my case ) they are "nude", doing a T-Pose ( they dont have genitals, just nipple textures ). And then it's like I said above, it's a 91x91 pixel unrendered thumbnail of the .duf file, if you ever worked in daz3d, you know that you cant make out shit there.
This has not been "short" but that's all you're getting. I'm getting kinda tired of explaining this over and over again since I talked about this multiple times in my progress updates and standalone posts as well.
And yes, sadly, when I don't give an update about the case in the progress update, then it means there is noterally nothing new. The last thing I got from my lawyer was on April 30th, where he just tells me state attorney didn't respond.
I don't want any pity but this is the most frustrating and emotionally draining thing ever. The fucking feeling of being powerless because some fucking person at the police department deems my stuff questionable and thinks she found something to have a case on my phone, which will easily be explained and debunked once I actually have to appear in court. To explain it in simpler words, this woman is literally keeping my livelihood hostage because she thinks I'm some kind of fucking predator, which stems from the fact she can't get ahold of the real piece of shit because he fled to thailand, so she has to find "another piece of shit", to put it bluntly.
Edited a few parts in and out.