http://www.aol.com/article/2015/10/3...57076874502911
Personally, I wish some bounty hunter would nab his old ass and drag him back to Los Angeles.
Keep in mind, he is under conviction. He skipped out because he never served his sentence. There is no "statute of limitations" on this.
I have read, several times over the years, just what he did, and what he plead out on. It was absolutly dispicable what he did. Under any law, in any State, he raped a young teen age girl.
The telling thing that caught my attention in the link I furnished is the victims words. "Rape". "Teenage Girl". "He's suffered enough". Really??
She might have forgiven him. Heck, in the court of public opinion, he might have been deemed to have "suffered" enough.
But,it seems the State of California does not forgive, or forget.
Originally Posted by Jackie S
yep. read that too yesterday. while i do not condone what Polanski did, which is drug a 13 year old girl and have sex with her, there is one thing that the US did that caused him to flee the US. they reneged on his plea agreement, which is rather unprecedented in legal terms. had the US not done that, i think the pollack would have abided by the original plea. and he "might" have paid the judgement against him, which he has not to this day. for a guy worth an estimated 45 Million, this is pocket change to him.
it was approximately 500k. chump change to a guy worth 45 M.
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/ric...ski-net-worth/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_...ual_abuse_case
Conviction and departure
Under the terms of the plea agreement, the court ordered Polanski to report to a state prison for a 90-day psychiatric evaluation, but granted a stay to allow him to complete his current project. Under the terms set by the court, he traveled to Europe to complete filming.
[29] Polanski returned to California and reported to
Chino State Prison for the evaluation period, and was released after 42 days.
[30] Polanski's lawyers had the expectation that Polanski would get only
probation at the subsequent sentencing hearing, with the probation officer, examining
psychiatrist, and the victim all recommending against jail time.
[31] The documentary
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired alleges that things changed after a conversation with LA Deputy District Attorney David Wells and the judge,
Laurence J. Rittenband. Polanski's attorneys assert that the judge suggested to them that he would send the director to prison and order him deported.
[5] In response to the threat of imprisonment, Polanski bought a one-way ticket to England and fled the United States.
[2]
Shortly after Polanski fled, Rittenband denied he ever did anything that the 2008 documentary would go on to allege, by issuing the following statement:
[32]
"I then stated that an appropriate sentence would be for Mr. Polanski to serve out the remainder of the 90-day period for which he had been sent to Chino, provided Mr. Polanski were to be deported by the Immigration and Naturalization Bureau, by stipulation or otherwise, at the end of the 90 days. I expressly stated that I was aware that the court lacked authority to order Mr. Polanski deported directly or as a condition of probation. However, based on the facts before me, I believed that the safety and welfare of the citizens of California required that Mr. Polanski be kept out of circulation for more than 90 days. However, since Mr. Polanski is an alien who had pleaded guilty to an act of moral turpitude, I believe that the interests of the citizens of California could be adequately safeguarded by a shorter jail term if Mr. Polanski would thereafter absent himself from the country." Polanski fled initially to London on 1 February 1978, where he maintained a residence. A day later he traveled on to France, where he held
citizenship, avoiding the risk of extradition to the United States by Britain. Consistent with its
extradition treaty with the United States, France can refuse to extradite its own citizens,
[33] and an extradition request later filed by U.S. officials was denied. The United States government could have requested that Polanski be prosecuted on the California charges by the French authorities.
[34] Polanski has never returned to England, and later sold his home there. The United States could still request the arrest and extradition of Polanski from other countries should he visit them, and Polanski avoided visits to countries (such as the UK) that were likely to extradite him and mostly travelled and worked in France, Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland.[
citation needed] In 1979, Polanski gave a controversial interview with the novelist
Martin Amis in which, discussing his conviction, he said "If I had killed somebody, it wouldn’t have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But… fucking, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to fuck young girls. Juries want to fuck young girls. Everyone wants to fuck young girls!"
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yeah Roman. sure you want to fuck a 13 year old. one problem.. it's illegal in the USA. anywhere.
yeah. i could hang here if i was worth 45 M and in exile. Polanski is a piece of shit .. but .. the US reneged on his plea deal so he ran away.