Roman Polanski, or pardon me but your poll is in my neck.

yeah

It appears to, it doesn't really

Why do countries not recognize extradition pleas?

imo they should just forget about the rape and charge him for fleeing, the victim wouldn't have to do anything. if there was a trial for the rape and she refused to testify there's not much they could do.

I assume that's what they planned to do.

It appears to, it doesn't really

― Niles Caulder, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 4:15 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

u been using caps dude, come on

In which case, could they introduce the victim's grand jury testimony and police statements, since she's uncooperative now?

Given the existence of those, and no new denial on her part that the acts were committed, can she be compelled to testify? Would any DA actually do so?

Yes, yes and yes.

no, he has to be able to cross-examine those statements

i don't get the sense that it would take much for her to testify, particularly if it means closing the case once and for all.

why are people talking about evidence for a rape trial, that part is done, he pleaded guilty to it.

Caps're funny, sorry. I am interested in all this, just not as much as my caps might've led you to suspect

right, actually. that part's done with, they were just about to sentence him when he fled. niles really is worked up about this d-bag child rapist fugitive.

There was talk that the plea could be set aside and a retrial ordered, though.

i don't know if that's possible or true but it was posed xpost

The US-France treaty provides that they need not extradite their own citizens to one another. One of the links above says that Polanski is French, I presume that's why he's been out-of-reach all these years.

he's french!?

charge them both with conspiracy

sounds far fetched, especially considering he'd be up for [whatever the lawyery term is for fleeing the country] on top of it, but what do i know

xp re: a retrial

i agree

I can't remember which link, but I think it said he was born in France (which isn't what I'd understood at all)

it has taken people arguing against the capture of a fugitive child rapist for me & bill magill to agree, but we do indeed seem to agree - a monumental day imo

oh haha. you're right! i'd assumed france was only involved because he lived there. silly me

whatever the courts decide, I still say not a single vote for Cul-de-Sac in that poll up there is ridic

it has taken people arguing against the capture of a fugitive child rapist for me & bill magill to agree, but we do indeed seem to agree - a monumental day imo

― rather shipped (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, September 29, 2009 4:25 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

a landmark occasion

First they came for the anal underage rapist fugitives and I said nothing...

he's french!?

So they could try him, find him guilty, then have him immediately deported? That would teach the bastard.

Why do I suspect Niles is rapidly heading for 51...

Question. If I ban 51 people, do I get banned myself or do I have to cast the 51st vote against myself for it to count?

Woody Allen lolz. I wonder if his daughter/wife signed.

"You can't watch films knowing Roman Polanski is sitting in a cell 5km away"

What if he was 6km away?

"judicial lynching"

LOL

Oh fuck the law, it's not meant to be a value in itself

― Niles Caulder, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:14 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no, youre right; its not meant to be a value in itself; theoretically its paired with "justice": the law applies (like ryan said about) equally and unequivocally to everyone, while the application of "justice" is specific and individual. the whole point of "law"; the whole, you know, foundation of its existence, is that you dont get to decide when it applies and when it doesnt, and "laws" dont care about how you were in the holocaust and your wife was murdered and you make great movies and your victim just wants to drop it.

people who are complaining about polanskis arrest seem to me to be confusing law with justice. polanski is getting arrested because he broke the law; the law is being applied to polanski in the same way it would/should apply to anyone, regardless of circumstance. now the case will be brought before a judge, at which point "justice" enters the equation. i imagine you would argue that "justice" will involve dismissal of the charges or some kind of soft censure; other would probably argue that "justice" involves a harsher punishment. but that's the whole point of "justice": its particular and distinct and requires that the holocaust and your murdered wife and your great movies and your victims desire to move on be part of the discussion.

to argue that the law shouldnt be carried out in this instance is to argue imo against the way law and justice work in a liberal society like ours--and maybe thats a conversation you want to have?

I misread that as "its particular and distinct and requires that the holocaust murdered your wife"

thats "german law"

"Yeah but that doesn't count because it was old school paedoing, before it got such a bad name"

http://tmwl.project76.tv/Images/NBYkXT_PeepShow4Blue.jpg

He may have put his peener in her anal, but at least he didn't kill her like Glenn Beck maybe didn't do either.

Maybe the Ninth Gate is the gate to prison, not Hell.

Has Jonny Depp signed the petition yet?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rm5M_p-9Cwg/RzbZjD93ssI/AAAAAAAAASo/tTtGleiKACQ/s320/Ninth+gate+-+Soundtrack.jpg

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/29/polanski.filmmakers.protest/t1home.freepolanski.gi.jpg

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/29/polanski.filmmakers.protest/index.html

I couldn't care less about his life, but if the victim doesn't care neither do I the end

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/931/fpol.jpg

Suggest ban for mismatching fonts.

It goes with the orange badge on pinstripes.

I think it's weird how many people seem up in arms about that SICK BASTARD child rapist this week, but didn't have anything to say about it last week or the last two decades.

yeah that is weird. did something happen recently that made this a hot topic? weeeeeirdddd.

Yes... Polanski was arrested in Switzerland last Saturday for extradition to the US.

I think jeff was being sarcastic.

I don't even know anymore.

it was sarcasm but it wasn't sarcasm-sarcasm.

I've been kind of pissed about it for a while. When I found out, I sold my Columbia House sealed Chinatown VHS for 1 dollar plus shipping fees on Amazon.

better to be a filth peddler than a holder of sympathizer video nasties.

I don't watch Sleepers or Powder either.

I remember that my friend Jennifer and I were the only people in the theater who laughed at the Roman Polanski joke in Beautiful Girls.