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I want him convicted of the crimes he plead guilty too.

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Nahh, I was reacting to knee-jerk cries for his head. Let's see what happens next.
ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: UncleNasty
Allowing victims of crime to have influence, sway or control over the punishments of convicted perpetrators would be the antithesis of the rule of law. Thank you Marc2b for your similar comments.

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A citizen of Poland and France, Polanski on Monday received diplomatic backing from both governments, which in tandem asked Switzerland to release him on bail immediately pending resolution of the extradition dispute. In addition, Kouchner and Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski of Poland announced they were writing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton seeking her intervention for an immediate release on bail and consideration of a clemency decree from President Obama

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ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy

One, its about more than the victim and her wishes, especially as an adult and especially with a likely large sum of cash in her account.

There are thousands of victims who never got a chance to settled nor were ever compensated for a adolesence lost.

Second... for that last statement, I want Polanski to stand for his crimes and be punished thusly.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

A possible next step....

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A citizen of Poland and France, Polanski on Monday received diplomatic backing from both governments, which in tandem asked Switzerland to release him on bail immediately pending resolution of the extradition dispute. In addition, Kouchner and Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski of Poland announced they were writing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton seeking her intervention for an immediate release on bail and consideration of a clemency decree from President Obama

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/28/AR2009092801413.html?wprss=rss_world/europe

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Hmm. Gee. I wonder if he might be a flight risk, were he to be granted bail... [sm=brush.gif]

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

A possible next step....

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A citizen of Poland and France, Polanski on Monday received diplomatic backing from both governments, which in tandem asked Switzerland to release him on bail immediately pending resolution of the extradition dispute. In addition, Kouchner and Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski of Poland announced they were writing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton seeking her intervention for an immediate release on bail and consideration of a clemency decree from President Obama

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/28/AR2009092801413.html?wprss=rss_world/europe

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

Part of the missing element is that he will be tried under the laws that existed at the time of the incident... unless i am mistaken.

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In 1977, he was accused of raping a teenager while photographing her during a modelling session. The girl said Polanski plied her with champagne and part of a Quaalude pill at Jack Nicholson's house while the actor was away. She said that, despite her protests, he performed oral sex, intercourse and sodomy on her.

Polanski was allowed to plead guilty to one of six charges, unlawful sexual intercourse, and was sent to prison for 42 days of psychiatric evaluation.

Lawyers agreed that would be his full sentence, but the judge tried to renege on the plea bargain. Aware the judge would sentence him to more prison time and require his voluntary deportation, Polanski fled to France.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors said Monday that they made contact multiple times with several countries in their efforts to arrest Roman Polanski since he fled overseas in 1978, disputing claims by the director's attorneys that they never pursued extradition because it would expose misconduct by the court that handled his sex case.

A release by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office on Monday detailed nine different actions it took over the years, including at least one per decade. The most recent was 2007, when prosecutors became aware of his scheduled appearance in Israel, but information sent arrived too late for authorities there to take action.

A similar effort in 2005 in Thailand also failed to nab the famed "Chinatown" and "Rosemary's Baby" director.

The final effort came Saturday, when Polanski, 76, was arrested in Switzerland as he arrived for the Zurich Film Festival to collect a lifetime achievement award. His lawyer has said that the director plans to fight extradition.

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The maximum sentence he could have faced was 50 years, although prosecutors had said at the time that the typical sentence was 16 months to three years in prison.

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Pedophile advocacy groups
During the late 1950s to early 1990s, several pedophile membership organizations advocated lowering or abolishing age of consent laws[8][9][10][11] to legalize sexual activities involving an adult and a child (defined as child sexual abuse by all modern cultures, socially, medically, and legally[12][13]). As one of their arguments to lower or abolish the age of consent, members of pedophile advocacy groups promoted their belief that children are psychologically capable of consenting to sexual interactions with adults[14] (although this opinion is contrary to legal and scientific consensus [15][16]), and they often portrayed themselves as fighting for the right of children to engage in what the activists consider to be consensual sex with adults.[11][14] Some activists tried to link their goals with those of the early LGBT social movements, but in the course of time those movements universally rejected this linkage.[8][17][18][19]

The age of consent reform efforts of pedophile advocacy groups such as the Danish Pedophile Association and the North American Man/Boy Love Association did not gain any public support[8][11][17][20][21] and today those groups that have not dissolved have only minimal membership and have ceased their activities other than through a few websites.[11][21][22][23] Beginning in the 1990s, public focus on and disapproval of pedophilia resulted in more stringent legislation and stronger criminal penalties regarding child pornography, child sexual abuse, and use of the internet to facilitate these offenses.[24][25][26]