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Polanski's Lawyers Seek Change of Venue From Hollywood
Lawyers for Roman Polanski, who fled the country more than 30 years ago on the eve of sentencing for having sex with a minor, on Monday asked that his case be moved from a Los Angeles justice system they say is too seriously tainted by its own misdeeds to treat the Oscar-winning filmmaker fairly.
It seems to me that Polanski has been treated more than fairly, so far. Do we not have an extradition treaty with France? It seems hard to imagine that if the circumstances of this crime were to repeat themselves (the 13-year-old victim told the grand jury that she was "was plied with alcohol and Quaaludes, and objected repeatedly as she was subjected to vaginal and anal sex"), that we'd happily let the defendant live his life in France if he weren't a well-known director. The fact that dismassal of the charges is being sought even though Polanski has admitted the crime and fled the jurisdiction is just crazy. Polanski can make this out to be a procedural issue all he wants, but if he gets a pass on this, it will be clear that America has a different standard for celebrities than it does for others when it comes to justice.
Posted by on 5 January 2009 at 2:06 PM
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