The Explainer: Roman Polanski edition
Posted: September 29th, 2009 | Author: Daniel | Filed under: movies | 2 Comments »The Explainer at Slate does a good job of explaining how Roman Polanksi came to be arrested in Switzerland.
So what did Polanski do? In 1977, when Polanski was 44, he raped a 13 year old girl in the California home of Jack Nicholson.
Why was he arrested now? Because prosecutors in California asked the Swiss to arrest him. It probably ticked off the prosecutors when Polanksi tried to have the charges against him dropped last December and they reacted by asking the Swiss to arrest him. The U.S. never asked the French to extradite Polanksi because the French (and the U.S. in the opposite case) can refuse to extradite a citizen.
Why did Polanski flee? All sides in the case thought that Polanski would only get probation and not be forced to serve jail time. But the judge, who engaged in some “ex parte communications” (communications with someone not involved in the case) decided that Polanski should serve some jail time. When the judge told Polanki’s attorney that he was considering jail time, Polanski fled.
Roman Polanski is guilty of abusing a minor and he really deservers to be in jail.
Roman Polanski maybe famous but this guy deserves to be in jail because he is guilty in abusing an underage girl.