Posted on 09/30/2009 7:22:41 PM PDT by RDTF
13-Year-Old's Testimony Tells Story Behind Polanski's Guilty Plea to Unlawful Sexual Intercourse
In the more than 30 years since director Roman Polanski pleaded guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl and then fled the country before he was sentenced, he has continued to make movies and even won an Academy Award.
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ABC News obtained transcripts of Geimer's 1977 grand jury testimony, which resulted in six charges against Polanski.
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(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Linda Tate and Charlie Manson,
It probably will happen. But hopefully less and less people will buy hollywood supporters’ projects and films. They are becoming a small self congratulatory circle.
Probably won't happen.His case has become a cause celebre in Europe.I'll wager that he's never returned.
—Having found a lenient California judge, Polanski gets a few months in jail at most.
In the slim chance of him actually being extradited it doesn't matter.*He plead guilty*.
—After serving time, he can then return to the U.S. at will because he is no longer a fugitive.
In the *highly* unlikely even that he's returned here and serves time,the INS has full authority to deport him and then to ban him as an "undesirable alien".But,admittedly,that won't happen under any RAT administration.
—He is treated as a hero in Hollywood and the rest of the media quickly comes around to this point of view.
That's already happened.He's loved by the "beautiful people" of this country as well as by the limp-wristed cowards of Europe.
Remember, he's already plead guilty and fled the jurisdiction of the tribunal before he was sentenced. There's no reason that the victim would have to testify - hence the purpose of the plea in the first place.
Also, he's looking at a felonious failure to appear from 1977 - the statute of limitation has not run out on that charge and it doesn't require the victim to testify. Long story short, he's going to see some real jail-time if he's returned to the US. And yes, I know about the case's problems and I say to them, "don't believe everything you see on HBO."
Okay, then I retract the trial part. I had assumed that his defense would claim that the original trial was tainted, retract his guilty plea and try to start over so he could get a “not guilty”. The more I think about it, the less sense it makes. I stick by the rest of it, though.
If he’s extradited, he gets a slap on the wrist and becomes a hero, then he can come and go as he pleases. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it (unless something else gets pointed out).
It was Sharon Tate who was his wife.
So of course when anyone lives through a horrible life experience, the only way to make them all better is to anally rape a 13 year old?
You've obviously never heard of Judge Ito...or the OJ jury.
Thank goodness, one thing he didn’t do was rape-rape.
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Don't Tread On Me!
LOL - the names and places are vaguely familiar.
Look, even in California, pedophiles don't fair very well. While not everyone dates a Ferrari driving beautiful blond ex-wife of a football star , most jurors either are parents, or know young girls who they don't want to see raped.
The problem here isn't what happens once he's returned. The problem is getting him returned first - which is a herculean task. But, and it's a big but, if he finds his feet back on American soil, considering he's a man in his 70's, he'll die in prison.
“—He is treated as a hero in Hollywood...”
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—Sodomizing 13-year old girls will be legalized in Hollywood.
I saw on the news this morning Woopi’s comments were something like it really wasn't rape.....Joy Baher said rape is rape.....maybe the first time I have ever agreed with Joy
MOST unfortunate placement of ads before and after the video...
Interesting that this all breaks soon after the woman who was convicted for murdering Polanski’s pregnant wife dies.
I remember them (Sharon Tate+Roman Polanski ) from Vincent Bugliosi 1970s book+TV movie Helter Skelter.
She doesn't have to. He plead guilty.
Lo! Allah, the Great and Mighty, and look not at the donkey and camel while the fig is purple for the Zionists have dyed the dates. (Surah 73:5)Were there 4 Islami to witness this?! If not, then our Muslim-in-training is innocent.
For the monkey and the women are equal before the Jinn! But monkeys smell nicer than women of Arabiya in black burqa in the tropical sun.All Polanski has to do is declare that all along he was following the unimpeachable example of the Apostle of Peace (PBUH).
And touch not the menstruating daughter while eating spaghetti.
Lo, the Zionists are pigs.
And Allah, the Merciful is above all. And peace be upon his Apostle.
(Surah 102:25-28)
Unlawful Flight to avoid a sentence is in itself a crime. Nowadays, the usual procedure is to sentence a bail-jumper in absentia. I don't know whether that was done in this case.
Remember, it was Roman Polanski himself who vitiated the plea deal by running. Now, he could as easily get a very harsh sentence as a slap on the wrist. Indeed, he could get more time for thumbing his nose at the court than for the admitted rape.
His biggest crime wasn’t the crime he was originally charged with. It was the crime of flaunting the law fleeing the country before justice could be served.
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