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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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