Switzerland will not grant US request for extradition of Polanski

BostonBettor · Jul 12, 2010

Acording to AP:

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 8:06 a.m. ET
BERN, Switzerland (AP) -- The Swiss government has rejected a U.S. extradition request for Roman Polanski on a charge of having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl.
The Justice Ministry said Monday in a statement that national interests were taken into consideration in the decision, and that Polanski was now a free man.

wilheim · Jul 12, 2010

While I am a big fan of the movie Chinatown (directed by Polanski) that has nothing to do with how I for one feel about this decision. Perfect example of a money talks and bullshit walks scenario..Polanski, a Polish National is a multimillionaire and able to lawyer his way out of a statutory rape beef with no statute of limitations in the US because of that. Had he been some working stiff with no money he would have been extradited a long time ago..

Yawn..no surprise here..wil.

treece · Jul 12, 2010

Its good to have money.

treece · Jul 13, 2010

I hope to have money one day.

quantumleap · Jul 13, 2010

I just read something on this case that I had never heard before. Polanski was sentenced to a 90-day psych evaluation for his crime. He served 42 days after which time the psychologist stated that he was unlikely to offend again. The judge decided that he was going to make Polanski serve the remaining 48 days and serve a voluntary deportation. Polanski left before he was arrested again.

He served his time that the psychologist said he should and was released by the psychologist. After 32 years this is just now being reported? That's slanted journalism.

Should Polanski have been sentenced to a longer term? Probably. I'm not defending him as to what he did but this was not a case of him having a multi-year sentence and skipping out on it.

VIEJODINOSAUR · Jul 13, 2010

I know Bookmakers who get more heat and grief than a guy who has sex with underage children....that's fuked up...

festeringZit · Jul 13, 2010

quantumleap said:
I just read something on this case that I had never heard before. Polanski was sentenced to a 90-day psych evaluation for his crime. He served 42 days after which time the psychologist stated that he was unlikely to offend again. The judge decided that he was going to make Polanski serve the remaining 48 days and serve a voluntary deportation. Polanski left before he was arrested again.

He served his time that the psychologist said he should and was released by the psychologist. After 32 years this is just now being reported? That's slanted journalism.

Should Polanski have been sentenced to a longer term? Probably. I'm not defending him as to what he did but this was not a case of him having a multi-year sentence and skipping out on it.

You must have misunderstood. Polanski had not been sentenced. He was getting the 90-day psych eval before sentencing. It was indeed a case of him
skipping out on a probable multi-year sentence.

On 28 January 1978, Polanski was released after undergoing the in-prison psychiatric evaluation, serving 42 days.[69] Despite expectations and recommendations that he would receive only probation at sentencing, the judge "suggested to Polanski's attorneys" that more jail time and possible deportation were in order.[66][70] Upon learning of the judge's plans Polanski fled to France on 1 February 1978, hours before he was to be formally sentenced.[62] As a French citizen, he has been protected from extradition and has mostly lived in France, avoiding countries likely to extradite him.[71] Because he fled prior to sentencing, all six of the original charges remain pending.[72]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski

DrunkenHorseplayer · Jul 13, 2010

Time to send Special Forces on a mission and bring him back.

quantumleap · Jul 14, 2010

festeringZit said:
You must have misunderstood. Polanski had not been sentenced. He was getting the 90-day psych eval before sentencing. It was indeed a case of him
skipping out on a probable multi-year sentence.

On 28 January 1978, Polanski was released after undergoing the in-prison psychiatric evaluation, serving 42 days.[69] Despite expectations and recommendations that he would receive only probation at sentencing, the judge "suggested to Polanski's attorneys" that more jail time and possible deportation were in order.[66][70] Upon learning of the judge's plans Polanski fled to France on 1 February 1978, hours before he was to be formally sentenced.[62] As a French citizen, he has been protected from extradition and has mostly lived in France, avoiding countries likely to extradite him.[71] Because he fled prior to sentencing, all six of the original charges remain pending.[72]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski

But my point was the whole question that the Swiss officials had, whether he had already served his entire sentence:

"According to Swiss officials, the records were required to determine if Polanski's 42-day court-ordered psychiatric evaluation at Chino State Prison constituted Polanski's whole sentence according to the now-deceased Judge Rittenband. Reasoning that if this was the correct understanding, then "Roman Polanski would actually have already served his sentence and therefore both the proceedings on which the U.S. extradition request is founded and the request itself would have no foundation."[81]"

Santo · Jul 14, 2010

The US didn't supply the necessary documentation. Given that, due process was to release him. If you want to blame somebody blame the US authorities. The rest of the world should not just deport/extradite people on the US's say so.

quantumleap · Jul 14, 2010

Santo said:
The US didn't supply the necessary documentation. Given that, due process was to release him. If you want to blame somebody blame the US authorities. The rest of the world should not just deport/extradite people on the US's say so.

Yeah, that was the point I was trying to make.

zit, just so there is no understanding, you are correct in that I misunderstood the situation. He could have received years in prison as his sentence. Personally, I feel he should have. My point was not to argue your point but to state that the Swiss felt the situation may no longer be valid since the judge never handed down a sentence. I don't know why he didn't do it in absentia.

coloradobuff · Jul 14, 2010

we should boycott their knives, watches, and chocolate

Soriano12 · Jul 14, 2010

coloradobuff said:
we should boycott their knives, watches, and chocolate

I hope you're just kidding: That would devastate betallsports and his watch business...the poor guy might even have to work overtime here at the rx to compensate and I'm not sure, if the board could take the 50 additional threads + polls every day @)

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