Polanski ordered back to US

[m21sniper]

The director was denied a plea to be sentence in Switzerland
Ellen Stodola

After being held under house arrest in Switzerland since September, Roman Polanski has been denied the option of being sentenced in Switzerland.

A judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court stated that Polanski must return to the United States in order for his issues to be resolved.

Polanski’s lawyers argue that there is a conflict between this decision and that of the original judge who had ruled that Polanski would serve no more than 90 days in jail, and this sentence would not have required return to the United States.

Polanski left California after he was convicted of having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl 32 years ago, and was arrested in Switzerland while on his way to a film festival. He had previously avoided several other charges involved with this case.

Polanski is best known for directing films such as The Pianist, Chinatown, and Rosemary’s Baby.

Roman Polanski Must Return to United States for Resolution | TheCelebrityCafe.com

Time to pay the piper Roman.

[Hugh R]

Good!!!


His lawyers claim that the judge was going to renig on the plea deal is a load of crap. All he had to do, if that happened was withdraw his plea and say "Let's go to trial". I've heard a number of lawyers say that.

[Racerbvd]

Lock his child molesting ass up!!! Let him see how it feels to be assaulted!!!

[varmint]

fresh fish.

[Damian in NJ]

He gave her a Qualuude and champagne, anally raped her-she was 13, he didn't want to get her pregnant . . . let's put him in a general prison population for a while.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

About time that damned child rapist gets his due.

[Rick Lee]

Calling Dottore.

[VINMAN]

Hopefully he'll get repeatedly azz-raped dry in prison. Unfortunately, it's way too many years too late.

[legion]

Polanski brought this all on himself.

First, he committed a crime and ran.

Second, he had his U.S. lawyer try to get the charges dismissed recently by arguing that the D.A. was no longer really pursuing the case. This is what touched off his current trouble. Ironically, one could assume he had his lawyer do this so that he could return to the U.S.. It looks like he will get his wish.

[speeder]

The Swiss still need to deport him in order for him to face the music and it looks to be anything but certain.

[RWebb]

deport??

I assume he'd be extradited now that he lost his motion before the judge.

[Joeaksa]

Originally Posted by BlueSkyJaunte

About time that damned child rapist gets his due.

Agreed!

[Tobra]

Good.

Before any of the apologists say it, the victim not wanting to proceed, this happening a long time ago, the possibility that the judge would not go through with plea deal, he is so talented, Americans are morally repressed, all irrelevant.

He raped a little girl, tried to cut a deal and left the country to escape any punishment. He will have to pay for these things, and I don't mean in cash.

[speeder]

Originally Posted by RWebb

deport??

I assume he'd be extradited now that he lost his motion before the judge.

Sorry, meant to type extradite. For some reason, the Swiss are taking their time honoring their treaty with us on this one and to outside observers, it looks like they may not.

[Joeaksa]

Originally Posted by speeder

Sorry, meant to type extradite. For some reason, the Swiss are taking their time honoring their treaty with us on this one and to outside observers, it looks like they may not.

After the way the American legal system absolutely screwed the Swiss with regards to their banking institutions recently, I can totally understand their taking their sweet time.

Polanski needs to be returned but we do not own the world and at times need to stop acting like it.

[Gogar]

Betcha I can change a vw belt in 10 seconds.

[varmint]

a list of the hollywood buffoons who supported polanski. they have mostly gone to ground now that the truth of the rape has been dug back up.

Fatih Akin, Stephane Allagnon, Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar, Wes Anderson, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Alexandre Arcady, Fanny Ardant, Asia Argento, Darren Aronofsky, Olivier Assayas, Alexander Astruc, Gabriel Auer, Luc Barnier , Christophe Barratier, Xavier Beauvois , Liria Begeja , Gilles Behat, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Marco Bellochio, Monica Bellucci, Djamel Bennecib, Giuseppe Bertolucci , Patrick Bouchitey, Paul Boujenah, Jacques Bral, Patrick Braoudé, André Buytaers, Christian Carion, Henning Carlsen, Jean-michel Carre, Mathieu Celary, Patrice Chéreau, Elie Chouraqui, Souleymane Cissé, Alain Corneau, Jérôme Cornuau, Miguel Courtois, Dominique Crevecoeur, Alfonso Cuaron, Luc et Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Jonathan Demme, Alexandre Desplat, Rosalinde et Michel Deville, Georges Dybman, Jacques Fansten, Joël Farges, Gianluca Farinelli (Cinémathèque de de Bologne), Etienne Faure, Michel Ferry, Scott Foundas, Stephen Frears, Thierry Frémaux, Sam Gabarski, René Gainville, Tony Gatlif, Costa Gavras, Jean-Marc Ghanassia, Terry Gilliam, Christian Gion, Marc Guidoni, Buck Henry, David Heyman, Laurent Heynemann, Robert Hossein, Jean-Loup Hubert, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Gilles Jacob, Just Jaeckin, Alain Jessua, Pierre Jolivet, Kent Jones (World Cinema Foundation), Roger Kahane, Nelly Kaplan, Wong Kar Waï, Ladislas Kijno, Harmony Korinne, Jan Kounen, Diane Kurys, Emir Kusturica, John Landis, Claude Lanzmann, André Larquié, Vinciane Lecocq, Patrice Leconte, Claude Lelouch, Gérard Lenne, David Lynch, Michael Mann, François Margolin, Jean-PierreMarois, Tonie Marshall, Mario Martone, Nicolas Mauvernay, Radu Mihaileanu, Claude Miller, Mario Monicelli, Jeanne Moreau, Sandra Nicolier, Michel Ocelot, Alexander Payne, Richard Pena (Directeur Festival de NY), Michele Placido, Philippe Radault, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Raphael Rebibo, Yasmina Reza, Jacques Richard, Laurence Roulet, Walter Salles, Jean-Paul Salomé, Marc Sandberg, Jerry Schatzberg, Julian Schnabel, Barbet Schroeder, Ettore Scola, Martin Scorsese, Charlotte Silvera, Abderrahmane Sissako, Paolo Sorrentino, Guillaume Stirn, Tilda Swinton, Jean-Charles Tacchella, Radovan Tadic, Danis Tanovic, Bertrand Tavernier, Cécile Telerman, Alain Terzian, Pascal Thomas, Giuseppe Tornatore, Serge Toubiana, Nadine Trintignant, Tom Tykwer, Alexandre Tylski, Betrand Van Effenterre, Wim Wenders, Isabelle Adjani ,Antoine Aronin, Paul Auster, Morgane Beauverger,Candice, Belaisch-Goldchmit, Yamina Benguigui, Pascal Bruckner, Jessika Cohen, Philippe Corbé, Jean-Paul Dayan, Katarina De Meulder, Arielle Dombasle, Nathalie Faucheux, Corinne Figuet, Pierre Forciniti, Louis Garrel, Albert Gauvin, Johanna Gozlan, Davide Homitsu Riboli, Taylor Hackford, Isabelle Huppert, Neil Jordan, Thierry Kamami, Milan Kundera, Gaelle Lancien, Claude Lanzmann, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Sam Mendes, Camille Meyer, Patrick Mimouni, Yann Moix, Mike Nichols, Sandra Nicolier, Marie Nieves Perez Neël, Salman Rushdie, Carine Sarna, Ysabelle Saura Del Pan, William Shawcross, Olivier Soares Barbosa, Steven Soderbergh, Nil Symchowicz, Danièle Thompson, Eugenia Varela Navarro, Diane von Furstenberg, Scott Foundas, Margaret Walker, Elsa Zylberstein.


i thank them for signing. because it beats having to look them up one at a time on the megan's law site.

[m21sniper]

Everyone on that list should have their names added to the sex offenders list.

[red-beard]

So? He can serve his 90 days, while we charge him with international flight to avoid justice. He should do several years for that!

[Joeaksa]

Gives me just another reason not to watch 95% of what Hollywood produces.

James, he should be charged with flight and hope/bet that the Judge puts him away for double the normal time period.