[Jeff Higgins]

You guys should be screaming for the heads of the original prosecutor and judge in this case, in addition to Polanski's. They farked up and let him go after extracting a confession based on a plea deal, abusing their positions that we, the public had trusted them with. It was all about influence, notoriety, and backroom dealing for those guys. Like Dottore says, our criminal justice system is entirely screwed up. This case is a proverbial poster child for the abuses that run rampant in that system. The Swiss merely recognize that a deal was struck, no matter how unsavory, and its terms need to be honored. No "do-overs" for either side once they agree to a deal. The prosecutor and judge failed in their duties to secure justice for the public they serve. They belong in jail as well, along with a whole raft of their contemporaries.