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I can't believe her! So I guess this means rape can be OK then? I just heard Sharon Tate's sister talking to Matt Lauer saying he was evaluated as not being a pedophile - Huh?! And it was OK for the 43 year old guy to have sex with the 13 year old girl because it was consensual. Geeze whats wrong with these people?!!!

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What would Whoopi say if it was her 13 year old daughter? When is a 43 year old man having sex with a 13 year old girl ever OK?

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I am disgusted with all the people who are supporting him - what would happen if it was your daughter?

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the victim and her family consider the matter settled and don't want it to go to trial. i don't see how calling for his head makes you a better person, or whatever.

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After he fled the country before sentencing, it stopped being about the rape victim. It was now a different case about him running from justice.

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After he fled the country before sentencing, it stopped being about the rape victim. It was now a different case about him running from justice.

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The rape case might still be tried - it was never finalized. But the victim is now a hostile witness and it's not clear what evidence they still have.

The victim's original statements aren't admissible unless there is a living witness left to testify under cross-examination as to what she said at the time. The prosecution could force the victim herself onto the stand but that's risky since she might shoot down their case.

The prosecutor who claimed he talked to the judge now says he lied about that. How much he lied, how often, and about what, is unclear. The judge is dead but at the time acknowledged "substantial misconduct" in the case at the time ... and the misconduct was never resolved because Polanski had fled.

BBC reported overnight that France is backing off insisting he be returned to France and that the Polish President has broken with their cabinet and opposes release. If France backs off I doubt the Swiss will let him go free. There is a US-Swiss extradition treaty and I doubt the Swiss will ignore it without France giving them cover.

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The victim might not say anything against him anymore because maybe part of the settlement agreement was that she can't criticize him anymore.

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She also says she forgives him. But how can she forgive him when he never once apologized and took responsibility for anything?

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I don't understand why they would need a living witness when her testimony is on court records. It's not hearsay.

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This has nothing to do with France or Poland. He was arrested in Switzerland for a crime committed in the United States. He's not a French or Polish diplomat or government official. So this has nothing to do with those countries and they should mind their own fucking business.

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But how can she forgive him when he never once apologized and took responsibility for anything?

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Let's try and focus on what this dispute is really about:

1. He spent 6 weeks in jail
2. He plead guilty to one charge, the others were dropped in exchange for his plea, so he is not guilty of those, regardless of what anyone says;
3. It was a condition of his plea that he receive credit for the time already spent in jail and that he would not spend anymore time in jail;
4. Another prosecutor, who was not involved in the case, coached the judge, without other counsel knowing, and convinced him to throw out the plea deal;
5. That was when Polanski fled - after the system was corrupted; and,
6. The same renegade prosecutor is the one that just leaked the Grand Jury testimony to ABC (and is the only one interviewed in the article).

Noone is defending sex with under-age girls (at least nobody who is sane), but you can't say that the whole process surrounding the punishment phase of Polanski's trial wasn't tainted.

As to you folks that argue that the jail time is too little. Maybe you're right, but the fact is, his crime does not merit the death penalty (despite what many would understandably wish), so he would have received a finite amount of jail time.

The prosecution and the defence agreed on the appropriate length of punishment. Whether you think that was right or not, they had a plea deal that was (apparently) within the sentencing guidelines

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The judge had the right to reject the deal. A favorable plea bargain was agreed to prevent the victim from suffering more trauma at trial.

The prosecutor who in the movie claimed he influenced the proceedings through an ex-parte conversation has now recanted the claim. The truth of what actually happened can be sorted out through the California Justice system once Roman is in country, and in a holding cell.

Woman testified that Roman plied her with drugs and alcohol before raping her anally. (She said no before he had sex with her, in her incapacitated state)

Roman later admitted to the police he had sexual intercourse with her, given this statement against interest, the rest of the victim's account is quite believable.

Even if you insist the victim lied, Roman jumped bail and fled the country. Marcia Clark said this act subjects him to a second charge of up to three years in prison.

By fleeing Roman tolled the statute of limitations on his crimes. Perhaps his defense attorney's motions should be granted and he should get a new trial on all the original charges and wait for his new trial behind bars because he is a flight risk. However, in a new trial every admission he's made over the years will come into evidence. The witness can be subpeona'd and if she tried to protect Roman her present testimony can be impeached through the use of her previous testimony before the grand jury.

In conclusion, Roman can go fuck himself.

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France's culture minister is struggling to keep his job amid an uproar about a 2005 book in which he details Bangkok's brothels and the pleasure and freedom of paying "boys" for sex.
Frederic Mitterrand's candid tale came back to haunt him after he jumped to the defense of filmmaker Roman Polanski, currently in a Swiss prison on U.S. charges relating to his sexual liaison with a 13-year-old girl when he was 43.

Mitterrand—nephew of late President Francois Mitterrand—is to appear on national television Thursday night amid a threatened police complaint and calls from both left and right for his resignation.

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“My personal thoughts are let the guy go,” said Peg Yorkin, founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation. “It’s bad a person was raped. But that was so many years ago. The guy has been through so much in his life. It’s crazy to arrest him now. Let it go. The government could spend its money on other things.”

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Peg Yorkin, founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation, supports Polanski and says he's been through enough.



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“My personal thoughts are let the guy go,” said Peg Yorkin, founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation. “It’s bad a person was raped. But that was so many years ago. The guy has been through so much in his life. It’s crazy to arrest him now. Let it go. The government could spend its money on other things.”

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She wants to let it go, although she filed a civil suit in 1988. While I think here input has merit, I still think he needs to come back and face the music.

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Peg Yorkin, founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation, supports Polanski and says he's been through enough.



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“My personal thoughts are let the guy go,” said Peg Yorkin, founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation. “It’s bad a person was raped. But that was so many years ago. The guy has been through so much in his life. It’s crazy to arrest him now. Let it go. The government could spend its money on other things.”

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A Swiss court has accepted film-maker Roman Polanski's plea to be freed on $4.5m bail from a Swiss jail where he is being held for a US child sex case.

The court said Polanski could stay at his chalet in the Swiss Alps. He would be monitored by an electronic tag.

Polanski, 76, has been wanted in the US since fleeing the country in 1978 after pleading guilty to having unlawful sex a year earlier with a 13-year-old girl.

He was held in Zurich after travelling from France in September.

'Unusual' ruling

On Wednesday, the Swiss Federal Criminal Court accepted Polanski's bail plea and his offer to surrender his passport.

The court said Polanski would be subjected to "constant electronic surveillance" at his chalet and an electronic tag would be activated if he attempted to leave the premises.

It also said that Polanski - who holds dual French and Polish citizenship - would stay in the prison pending a possible appeal against the ruling.

The Swiss justice ministry has 10 days to appeal against the court's decision.

But Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf said she saw no reason to appeal against the decision.

It is highly unusual for extradition subjects to be granted bail in Switzerland, says the BBC's Imogen Foulkes, adding that Polanski's first application was refused.

But this time the court ruled bail conditions should be enough to prevent him fleeing back to France, our correspondent says.

The ruling is not thought to affect the Swiss government's ongoing assessment of whether it should extradite Polanski to the US.

Polanski has not set foot in the US since fleeing the country in 1978, and has settled in France.

Speaking after detention in September, US prosecutors disputed claims that his arrest came out of the blue, saying he had been on an Interpol "wanted list" for years.

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Film director Roman Polanski has been moved from a jail near Zurich to an undisclosed location for "security reasons", Swiss officials say.

Polanski, who has been held since September, is to be placed under house arrest at his Alpine chalet on Friday after being granted bail by a court.

He fled the US in 1978 after pleading guilty to having unlawful sex with an underage girl.

Switzerland is deciding whether to extradite him to the US.

A justice ministry spokesman said Polanski left the jail in Winterthur on Thursday for "security reasons and personal protection", AP news agency reported.

The spokesman said Polanski was still expected to be taken to his chalet in the luxury resort of Gstaad on Friday afternoon.

The 76-year-old film-maker will be fitted with an electronic bracelet that will activate if he attempts to abscond.

The Swiss Federal Criminal Court granted the Oscar-winning director $4.5m (£2.7m) bail, pending proceedings for his possible extradition to the US.

The director of films such as Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown and The Pianist was arrested after travelling to Zurich on 26 September to pick up a lifetime achievement award.

Polanski was accused of raping a 13-year-old girl after plying her with champagne and a sedative during a modelling shoot in 1977.

He was initially indicted on six counts - including rape by use of drugs, child molesting and sodomy - but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of unlawful sexual intercourse.

Polanski fled the US on the day he was to be sentenced, and has lived in France since then.

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15 year old Natasha Richardson or Kinski

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God you're an idiot

Those Natashas are just asking for it.

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And what am I an idiot for? Spelling Kinski's name wrong? EXCUSE ME. It's Nastassja then. But she and Richardson were teenagers then. I forgot which one and mixed up the two Natasha's. Fuck you troll!

Natasha was 45 while Nastassja is 48. So he was with Natasha when she was 15 after he fled the United States. I heard it earlier today.

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RadarOnline.com will continue to update the story as it develops.

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