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Originally Posted by Dueller
Just in...Swiss deny U.S. extradition request...Polanski freed from house arrest. Swiss blame it on failure of U.S. to provide info on 1977 sentencing.o
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The US failed to provide this info, because it would have shown that Polanski had in fact served his full sentence as agreed in his plea bargain. To now disclose this information would have shown the world how corrupt and capricious the US courts can be. And the Americans didn't want to look any stupider than they already do.
The US has a third world judicial system, and the Swiss refusal to extradite Polanski clearly reflects this fact.
I had dinner with some senior Swiss lawyers a couple of months ago, who said that the fact that Polanski was even arrested in Switzerland at all was considered a "national tragedy" by almost all members of the Swiss bar.
So I suggest you guys need to get over this, like everyone else has long ago. If you want to do something useful, work on reforming your deeply flawed, legal judicial and penal institutions and processes.