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28-09-2009, 11:25 AM
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I was reading this today and it doesn't seem like Polanksi is actually arguing that he had sex with a 13 year old and gave her drugs.
If he wasn't a famous film director would anybody be making a song and dance about this ?
Seems like he commited a crime, was released on bail of some kind, did a runner and never came back.
Why should he be except , I can't imagine any normal Joe Blow would be.
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28-09-2009, 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by SimonH  BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Outcry over Polanski's detention
I was reading this today and it doesn't seem like Polanksi is actually arguing that he had sex with a 13 year old and gave her drugs.
If he wasn't a famous film director would anybody be making a song and dance about this ?
Seems like he commited a crime, was released on bail of some kind, did a runner and never came back.
Why should he be except , I can't imagine any normal Joe Blow would be. | change his name to Gary Glitter and people would be volunteering to send him to the US
wow, never knew he was a convicted pedo
some of the comments defending him are amazing
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28-09-2009, 11:39 AM
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I saw Robert Harris defending him on Ch4 news yesterday, and was quite irate
- he was justifying Polanski's freedom from punishment on the basis that the then 13 year-old girl now doesn't want him to be prosecuted and was quite sexually active as a 13 year old, and that the judge threw away a plea bargain, so he had no choice but to flee
... so that's alright then, he should get away with giving quaaludes to clearly underage girl and then sodomising her 
Hollywood doesn't generally seem to mind nonces, since they still award Polanski, and convicted paedophile Victor Salva churns out his Jeepers Creepers movies.
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Sounds similar to another star getting away with having 14 year old boys in thier bed.People would be disgusted if it was just a normal bloke,but because they're famous  | |
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28-09-2009, 11:49 AM
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send him back to the USA and let their prison system take care of him, lets see if what he did was really worth it in the end.
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Originally Posted by scarty16 send him back to the USA and let their prison system take care of him, lets see if what he did was really worth it in the end. | A secondary benefit of his conviction would be getting up the noses of types like the OP of that other thread in the movie forum ... why the frig should I be "extremely grateful" to Polanksi? I get a bit vexed when artsy-fartsy commentators put certain people upon a pedestal above others who've actually done a great deal for society and humanity.
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So has he actually served time for this crime already ?
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I've always found the whole Elvis Presley and Priscilla dodgy and Bill Wyman and Mandy Smith but some people can get away with it and others can't.
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Originally Posted by Hillskill So has he actually served time for this crime already ? | no
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28-09-2009, 12:22 PM
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It is interesting that playing Gary Glitter or Jonathan King music on the radio has become a no-no in the UK since their convictions, and yet Polanksi's films are widely shown.  | |
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@ Sonic .. Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry ....
@ Loz ... it's the artsy-fartsy / elitist brigade still getting their way
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Originally Posted by Hillskill So has he actually served time for this crime already ? | Quote:
Originally Posted by loz no | Read somewhere that he had. Just did a Google and found this: Quote:
Polanski was allowed to plead guilty to one of six charges, unlawful sexual intercourse, and was sent to prison for 42 days of evaluation.
Lawyers agreed that would be his full sentence, but the judge tried to renege on the plea bargain. Aware the judge would sentence him to more prison time and require his voluntary deportation, Polanski fled.
| Link: Roman Polanski in Swiss Police Custody - CBS News
He needs to go back to face the music for sure. What I don't understand is admitted to drugging her but the charge is only one of "unlawful intercourse". Eitherway there appears to be enough holes in this case for a good legal team to get him out of it.
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Originally Posted by loz no | As i understand it he was locked up for 42 days for psychological tests etc. and he changed his plea for a bargain for time served meaning he could have walked free but fled the country because the judge was going to reject it.
Edit: what Hillskill said.
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He needs to go back to face the music for sure. What I don't understand is admitted to drugging her but the charge is only one of "unlawful intercourse". Eitherway there appears to be enough holes in this case for a good legal team to get him out of it. | according to the guardian Roman Polanski and the 31-year-old legal headache | David Thomson | Film | guardian.co.uk Quote: |
In the legal negotiations that followed, Polanski never denied the charges, but they were dismissed under the terms of the plea bargain by which he pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a minor. With a view to proper sentencing, the judge – Laurence Rittenband – ordered that Polanski be confined for psychiatric examination. That led to 42 days' confinement in the Chino State Prison over the 1977-8 period. In that examination Polanski was passed as fit to stand trial. It was the director's understanding that the 42 days in Chino would satisfy punitive instincts. There might be a fine, too, but he would be freed. Then, just before sentencing, Polanski heard that Rittenband was ready to break the agreement – because he feared public criticism of a verdict that seemed too lenient on Polanski. And so, fearing further imprisonment, Polanski broke bail and flew by British Airway
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