I am not a lawyer, but I strongly suspect that if that is true, it will not work. They were married when he committed his crime, so any civil proceeding, and I hope there is a huge one, would likely apply to his assets at the time of the crime.

Hell, today you need go no further back than a few weeks to when an armed mob invaded the Michigan capital - then point out that the Minneapolis looters weren’t even armed... but for some reason the Michigan scofflaws were not gassed, shot or arrested... hmmm...

When I have had these discussions, I remain calm and say “If a non-cop was caught on video doing exactly the same thing, would they have been arrested already? The word you are looking for is ‘hell yes’ - there would be no wait.”