Comments | jrittenhouse: Surprise of the morning:

jrittenhouse

Surprise of the morning:

Sep 28, 2009 03:22

Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland on his old 31-year old criminal warrant from America. I didn’t think they’d ever manage that one.

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bigbumble September 28 2009, 10:07:38 UTC

The article implies he was convicted but jumped bail before sentencing. Is that the case?

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jrittenhouse September 28 2009, 14:22:12 UTC

Pretty much; all parties involved were in various degrees of bad faith in the process.

stickmaker September 28 2009, 16:37:43 UTC

NPR was talking about this repeatedly yesterday. However, I would hear "Roman Polanski" then a long talk about his career, arrest and exile, with no mention of why they were talking about him. I thought he had died.

Apparently, they would say something like "After a long time of evading sentencing, arrest has finally come for Roman Polanski." I would tune in on the name, and they'd never mention the arrest again. Irritating.

tceisele September 28 2009, 16:46:42 UTC

That's the problem I have with radio news in general. They hardly ever sum up quickly at the end. I'm constantly hearing about something happening somewhere, but they only said where they were at the beginning - and then at the end, they say something like, "And this is [reporter name] at [city where reporter is based, *not* the city where something is happening].

Drives me crazy.

supergee September 28 2009, 17:53:12 UTC

The best way to deter prosecutor misconduct, like police misconduct, is to deprive them of a juicy conviction. This strikes me as an excellent opportunity.

jrittenhouse September 28 2009, 19:37:19 UTC

I don't think he's going to serve any appreciable time in the slam; the fire has gone out of the prosecution of this one. My guess is that the prosecutors in LA will probably haul him back, process him, throw him in the can for a week and say 'shock probation' or some such. To them (and again, it's just a guess) it's more a matter of 'you can't escape the law, bub' at this point.

samwinolj September 29 2009, 01:57:52 UTC

Although I'm not a fan of prosecutorial misconduct, as I understand it, he drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl. Not sure why finally bringing him to justice is a bad thing.

supergee September 29 2009, 19:38:31 UTC

While I agree in principle, even the victim (now an adult, obviously) wants the entire case to just end.