Roman Polanski’s fugitive days are over. The Academy Award-winning director is under arrest in Switzerland and vowing to fight extradition to California to face charges in connection with a 1977 sex crime involving a 13-year-old girl. Swiss police arrested Polanski Saturday when he arrived in Zurich for a film festival, where he was to receive an honorary award.
The 76-year-old had been living in France for decades to avoid U.S. authorities. You may recall, he declined to attend the Academy Awards in 2003, when he won Best Director for “The Pianist.” That’s because he would have been arrested once he set foot on U.S. soil.
Let’s rewind to 1977. That’s when Polanski pleaded guilty to having sex with a minor. He was 43 at the time. The incident happened during a photo shoot at actor Jack Nicholson’s home. Nicholson was not at home. Polanski fled before he could be sentenced.
There have been several attempts over these past three decades to settle the sex case, but Polanski has always refused to come back to the U.S.
The movie director started a new life in France. He got married and is the father of two children.
Do you think Polasnki should fight extradition or face justice in California?
Prosecutors have argued it would be a miscarriage of justice to allow a man to go free who “drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl.”
He also has a lot of supporters who think the case should be dropped, including the victim.
Now 45, married and known as Samantha Geimer, she made her identity public years ago, because she said she was disturbed at how the criminal case was being handled.
She sued Polanski in civil court, which led to an undisclosed settlement. In court documents filed earlier this year, she said, “I am no longer a 13-year-old child… Every time this case is brought to the attention of the court, great focus is made of me, my family, my mother and others. That attention is not pleasant to experience and is not worth maintaining over some irrelevant legal nicety, the continuation of this case.”
taken from -http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/28/evening-buzz-fugitive-filmmaker-arrested-fighting-back/
Another perspective-
She was not drugged but given some champagne.
She was a fully developed model, and he was her photographer.
She consented
She wasn't a virgin to begin with
Anjelica Huston, who was Nicholson's g/f at the time thought the girl was 20.
further details here -http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/free-roman-polanski-wtf/
The 76-year-old had been living in France for decades to avoid U.S. authorities. You may recall, he declined to attend the Academy Awards in 2003, when he won Best Director for “The Pianist.” That’s because he would have been arrested once he set foot on U.S. soil.
Let’s rewind to 1977. That’s when Polanski pleaded guilty to having sex with a minor. He was 43 at the time. The incident happened during a photo shoot at actor Jack Nicholson’s home. Nicholson was not at home. Polanski fled before he could be sentenced.
There have been several attempts over these past three decades to settle the sex case, but Polanski has always refused to come back to the U.S.
The movie director started a new life in France. He got married and is the father of two children.
Do you think Polasnki should fight extradition or face justice in California?
Prosecutors have argued it would be a miscarriage of justice to allow a man to go free who “drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl.”
He also has a lot of supporters who think the case should be dropped, including the victim.
Now 45, married and known as Samantha Geimer, she made her identity public years ago, because she said she was disturbed at how the criminal case was being handled.
She sued Polanski in civil court, which led to an undisclosed settlement. In court documents filed earlier this year, she said, “I am no longer a 13-year-old child… Every time this case is brought to the attention of the court, great focus is made of me, my family, my mother and others. That attention is not pleasant to experience and is not worth maintaining over some irrelevant legal nicety, the continuation of this case.”
taken from -http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/28/evening-buzz-fugitive-filmmaker-arrested-fighting-back/
Another perspective-
She was not drugged but given some champagne.
She was a fully developed model, and he was her photographer.
She consented
She wasn't a virgin to begin with
Anjelica Huston, who was Nicholson's g/f at the time thought the girl was 20.
further details here -http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/free-roman-polanski-wtf/
She was a fully developed model, and he was her photographer.
She consented
She wasn't a virgin to begin with
Anjelica Huston, who was Nicholson's g/f at the time thought the girl was 20.
^All irrelevant.
Was she under age? Yes
Did he stick his dick in her? Yes
Case closed.
If I'd be arrested and put in jail for what he did, why shouldn't he have to face the same reality?
Still a 30 year difference is just waay too much and even if she had been 20 it would still have been a bit weird. The fact that he fled the country is a much bigger indicator that he was/is guilty and he does deserve to be put in front of a trial for it.
But, as it seems, if both he and her have put it behind them, then I don't see the reason in ripping up the old wounds again for the sake of the law. He could face justice for fleeing the country in the middle of a trial, but other than that if both parties don't want this, then why do it again?
It makes me sick that a 17 year old girl can fuck a 21 year old in America, he dumps her, she gets mad, and files stagetory rape against him. It happens more often than you can imagine.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/29/polanski.victim.profile/index.html
EDIT: We love to make a big deal about how he was "Finally Arrested" when in fact, he voluntarily gave himself over the first time!
However, the new bill also carries a "near-in-age exception" that allows teenagers to engage in consensual sex below the legal age limit with a person no more then 5 years older then them."
http://www.advicenators.com/qview.php?q=492163
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The real story here is that Polansky initially cooperated. He submitted a guilty plea based on a plea bargain that the fame-hungry judge then reneged on. It's a great example of our justice system going snafu.
EDIT: We love to make a big deal about how he was "Finally Arrested" when in fact, he voluntarily gave himself over the first time!
indeed. the case was already in court, polanski admitted to everything and both parties settled, then the asshole judge changed his mind and wanted to crucify him, which made polanski run to france
and, btw, where the fuck is the victim's mother in all this - she left the girl (with full knowledge of everything) at the party cause she wanted her daughter to get into movie business ... she should be on trial as well, if you ask me