Yes, I'm sure this girl (woman now) is pretty embarrassed and ashamed, and doesn't really want to rehash all of this, which is totally normal for someone who has experienced a rape. They self blame, and that is totally normal. That is not the POINT at all. The point is that this guy is obviously not under control of himself enough to NOT drug and rape young girls. Young girls need to be protected from such predatory individuals who would rather prey on naive teenagers than women their own age group.
Under the terms of the plea agreement, the court ordered Polanski to report to a state prison for a 90-day psychiatric evaluation, but granted a stay to allow him to complete his current project. Under the terms set by the court, he traveled to Europe to complete filming.
[29] Polanski returned to California and reported to
Chino State Prison for the evaluation period, and was released after 42 days.
[30] Polanski's lawyers had the expectation that Polanski would get only
probation at the subsequent sentencing hearing, with the probation officer, examining
psychiatrist, and the victim all recommending against jail time.
[31]
However, it is alleged in the documentary
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, that things changed after an
ex parte conversation between LA Deputy District Attorney David Wells and the judge,
Laurence J. Rittenband. Wells was not an attorney of record on the case, but was an attorney for the State of California, which was a party to the case. Thus, the communication with Wells was a one-sided external communication, which is prohibited by ethics law. Wells allegedly showed the judge a photo of Polanski with his arms around some ostensibly underage girls, and convinced Rittenband that Polanski should not be released.
Polanski's attorneys assert that the judge suggested to them that he would send the director to prison and order him deported.
[5] In response to the threat of imprisonment, Polanski bought a one-way ticket to England and fled the United States.
[2] Shortly after Polanski fled, Rittenband denied he ever did anything that the 2008 documentary would go on to allege, by issuing the following statement:
I then stated that an appropriate sentence would be for Mr. Polanski to serve out the remainder of the 90-day period for which he had been sent to Chino, provided Mr. Polanski were to be deported by the Immigration and Naturalization Bureau, by stipulation or otherwise, at the end of the 90 days. I expressly stated that I was aware that the court lacked authority to order Mr. Polanski deported directly or as a condition of probation. However, based on the facts before me, I believed that the safety and welfare of the citizens of California required that Mr. Polanski be kept out of circulation for more than 90 days. However, since Mr. Polanski is an alien who had pleaded guilty to an act of moral turpitude, I believe that the interests of the citizens of California could be adequately safeguarded by a shorter jail term if Mr. Polanski would thereafter absent himself from the country.
[32]
Polanski fled initially to London on 1 February 1978, where he maintained a residence. A day later he traveled on to France, where he held
citizenship, avoiding the risk of extradition to the United States by Britain. Consistent with its
extradition treaty with the United States, France can refuse to extradite its own citizens,
[33] and an extradition request later filed by U.S. officials was denied. The United States government could have requested that Polanski be prosecuted on the California charges by the French authorities.
[34] Polanski has never returned to England, and later sold his home there. The United States could still request the arrest and extradition of Polanski from other countries should he visit them, and Polanski avoided visits to countries (such as the UK) that were likely to extradite him and mostly travelled and worked in France, Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland.[
citation needed] In 1979, Polanski gave a controversial interview with the novelist
Martin Amis in which, discussing his conviction, he said "If I had killed somebody, it wouldn’t have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But… *******, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to **** young girls. Juries want to **** young girls. Everyone wants to **** young girls!"
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