Roman Polanski lawsuit
Accept that he is a good filmmaker with films like 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'The Pianist'. Being good filmmaker doesn't mean that he should be treated above the law. The case of Roman Polanski is gore as seen in some of his films. Here is the timeline of the case.
March 12, 1977 - Polish film director Roman Polanski, widower of murdered actress Sharon Tate, was on charges of luring a 13-year-old girl under the pretext of photographing her, then drugging and raping her.
March 26, 1977 - Conviction on the charges could send Polanski to prison for up to 50 years. Polanski, 43, remained free on $2,000 bail.
August 10, 1977 - Court ordered that psychiatrists appointed by it will examine Roman Polanski in Los Angeles if he can be labelled as a 'mentally disordered sex offender'.
September 20, 1977 - A 90-day psychiatric study is ordered by the court to to help the judge decide his sentence.
February 3, 1978 - Roman Polanski flees from United States and arrives at his Paris apartment. This happens just hours before he was to have been sentenced in a California court. Consistent with its extradition treaty with the United States, France can refuse to extradite its own citizens. An extradition request later filed by U.S. officials was denied.
From there on Polanski is cautious enough to avoid visit to countries (such as the UK) that were likely to extradite him and mostly travelled in France, Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland. Well he is a director himself and he know how to escape imprisonments like his heroes!
There comes the Zurich film festival. Polanski travels to accept the award. An US team arrests him. Chief inspector Thomas Hession whose team arrested Polanski, said Polanski had been the subject of an Interpol "red notice" for years. He said Polanski was arrested because authorities had the advance knowledge and the opportunity. "The idea that we have known where he is and we could have gotten him anytime, that just isn't the case," he said.
March 12, 1977 - Polish film director Roman Polanski, widower of murdered actress Sharon Tate, was on charges of luring a 13-year-old girl under the pretext of photographing her, then drugging and raping her.
March 26, 1977 - Conviction on the charges could send Polanski to prison for up to 50 years. Polanski, 43, remained free on $2,000 bail.
August 10, 1977 - Court ordered that psychiatrists appointed by it will examine Roman Polanski in Los Angeles if he can be labelled as a 'mentally disordered sex offender'.
September 20, 1977 - A 90-day psychiatric study is ordered by the court to to help the judge decide his sentence.
February 3, 1978 - Roman Polanski flees from United States and arrives at his Paris apartment. This happens just hours before he was to have been sentenced in a California court. Consistent with its extradition treaty with the United States, France can refuse to extradite its own citizens. An extradition request later filed by U.S. officials was denied.
From there on Polanski is cautious enough to avoid visit to countries (such as the UK) that were likely to extradite him and mostly travelled in France, Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland. Well he is a director himself and he know how to escape imprisonments like his heroes!
There comes the Zurich film festival. Polanski travels to accept the award. An US team arrests him. Chief inspector Thomas Hession whose team arrested Polanski, said Polanski had been the subject of an Interpol "red notice" for years. He said Polanski was arrested because authorities had the advance knowledge and the opportunity. "The idea that we have known where he is and we could have gotten him anytime, that just isn't the case," he said.
The whole thing can form a plot for a movie. Well! we can inform Polanski to direct that on his release. All these mean that Polanski is intelligent enough to direct good films, intelligent enough to convince a mother for photographing her 13 year old child, intelligent enough to drug her and rape her, intelligent enough to flee to countries which wont extradite its citizens. People are now saying that he is a good director and should be forgiven for a crime done 30 years ago. Even the 13 year old girl whom Polanski raped says,
Well! Samantha! even if you forgive him for his act, should he not stand before the law for defying the same for 30 odd years? Having defied the law for 30 odd years should be treated against Polanski as a 30 year crime and he must face the law.
Straight up, what he did to me is wrong he would return to America so the whole ordeal can be put to rest for both of us. I think he's sorry, I think he knows it was wrong. I don't think he's a danger to society. I don't think he needs to be locked up forever and no one has ever come out ever - besides me - and accused him of anything. It was 30 years ago now. It's an unpleasant memory.All these mean that Polanski is intelligent enough to direct good films, intelligent enough to convince a mother for photographing her 13 year old child, intelligent enough to drug her and rape her, intelligent enough to flee to countries which won't extradite its citizens.
Well! Samantha! even if you forgive him for his act, should he not stand before the law for defying the same for 30 odd years? Having defied the law for 30 odd years should be treated against Polanski as a 30 year crime and he must face the law.
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