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Originally Posted by speeder
He would not have wanted to have a trial at the time on that charge or issue. Unless her GJ testimony was made of whole cloth, he drugged and raped her.
I think that even his close friends know that he's a sick fk and that he forced himself on that little girl, (which is rape in this country).
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My apologies Denis, I don't consider you one of the sanctimonious arseholes on this board. But having been called every name under the sun for having a different opinion from the others here, it's perhaps possible to understand my response.
But what I quote from your comments above goes to the point: You presume he drugged and raped her. Everybody on this board presumes he drugged and raped her.
This is however a question of fact that should have been tried—but it couldn't be because it was already presumed in the charge of statutory rape.
All we have is the girls GJ testimony which has been called into question by numerous commentators, and which she (the alleged victim) has stated she now regrets.
When faced with a kangaroo court, and trial by the media—why should Polanski have taken a chance and stayed around only to be locked up for God knows how long for something that even the alleged victim claims was really not a large moral transgression in the great scheme of things.
There was a complete disconnect between the crime and the punishment that was about to be meted out, and that disconnect was down to the media and a deeply flawed judicial system.
Sorry, but if my version of these events is right—and certainly from all the reading I have done on this, and the conversations I have had, it seems probable to me that my version is right—then I believe the fact that Polanski fled the country at that time was a completely reasonable thing for him to do, and morally neutral. He had served the time he was told he had to serve.
Also, although I'm not very well versed in California criminal procedure, I believe the plea bargain Polanski made was blessed by the judge in open court—which should have made it binding. Or if it wasn't binding, this was never properly explained to Polanski (see the recent documentary), with the result that he copped plea to the lesser charge without understanding that the whole thing could be set aside by the judge—who most clearly was thoroughly corrupt.
Anyway, this horse is probably well and truly dead, and maybe we should agree to disagree.