[Dottore]

Tough crowd.

Speeder: Sorry. I don't see it that way. Her consent (or lack of it) was the proper issue here. Not her age. In every other civilized country such consent would have been a question of fact to be decided by a court of law—not presumed by an absurd and outdated statutory rape law.

And the so-called 'victim' has publicly stated that she "regrets" her grand-jury testimony and the impact this has had on Polanski's life, and has openly pleaded with the DA to let this matter drop. And there is ample evidence that she was coached and manipulated in her original grand jury testimony by an overzealous prosecution.