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Originally Posted by ShellyCrash
There's a statute of limitations on how long after the commision of a crime you can be charged with it, but because Polanski already pleaded guilty the charges have already been satisfied. It's the sentencing phase where issues arrise.
There was some serious momentum to have the charges dropped a few years ago but the judge said he'd only hear the case if Polanski came back to the states and turned himself over to US authorities, to which Polanski said no.
I mean, I can't fucking blame the guy. He spend 40 some odd days in Chino after he voluntarily committed himself to a nuthouse for psychiatric evaluation, all at the behest of the DA. He played the game and did everything they asked of him to the letter and then the judge tried to fuck him over.
It's never ok for a grown man to have sex with a 13 year old, but given the circumsrtances everyone involved including the victim and the prosecutor agree he's served his time. The fact that they arrested him is pretty weak.  |
Wasn't that largely due to public pressure though? I think there was some public outcry over the 42 day sentence in light of it being a 13 yr old girl he supposedly "defiled". Wasn't this judge an elected official bowing to the will of his constituents?
No excusing it though, renegging on the original deal/sentence was a pretty suck-ass thing to do. And you'd think the authorities and legal systems of the world have better things to do than rehashing 30 yr old cases where the so-called victim isn't even interested in pursuing it and hasn't been for decades.