Like Whoopie Goldberg said, it wasn't rape rape.
Sorry, calling the 13 year old rape victim a grifter is not a defense to drugging, raping and sodomizing a minor.
But what if she really is a grifter, looking for a big payday?
He drugged her and raped her.
You means she willingly took drugs and had sex, like she had done many times before and since?
You can face prosecution for buying a minor alcohol or tobacco. You want this guy to skate for drugging and raping a minor. Your lame attempts to call her a grifter are just that, lame.
Except she and her mother were grifters... so there's that.
More to the point, though, is that behavior of the judge in the case was so outrageous that it blots out any crime Polanski might have committed.
Roman Polanski: The truth about his notorious sex crime
Polanski was released after 42 days of his 90-day term, but here the story gets complicated. Polanski had been led to believe by Rittenband that after Chino, his time behind bars would be over.
However, the judge was overheard boasting at his country club that he would put Polanski away "for 100 years".
This was just part of Rittenband's bizarre behaviour. We learn from Zenovich's film that the judge, anxious to impress on the media that he was in control of proceedings,
twice proposed to prosecuting Assistant District Attorney Roger Gunson and to Polanski's defence lawyer Douglas Dalton that they should plead their cases to him, after which he would pronounce a sentence that he had decided beforehand – in effect, amounting to a mock trial. We learn that Rittenband was inordinately influenced by publicity, and that, quite inappropriately, he solicited other people's advice on how he should act: one of them, reporter Richard Brenneman, who was startled to be asked, "What the hell do I do with Polanski?"
In the documentary, Geimer says of Rittenband, "He didn't care what happened to me, and he didn't care what happened to Polanski. He was orchestrating some little show ' that I didn't want to be in."
Even Gunson comments – and this is the prosecutor, mark you – "I'm not surprised that [Polanski] left under those circumstances."
Sorry, I care more about due process under the law than some Little Grifter.