Roman Polanski Extradition Request Rejected by Poland’s Supreme

>Mr. Polanski was first arrested in 1977 on charges that included the rape of the 13-year-old girl at the home of the actor Jack Nicholson. In 1978, he left the United States on the eve of sentencing under an agreement by which he was to plead guilty to a count of statutory rape.

>In October 2015, a judge in Krakow, Poland, ruled that turning over Mr. Polanski would be an “obviously unlawful” deprivation of liberty, saying that the state of California, where he was convicted, was unlikely to conduct a fair trial and provide humane conditions of confinement for the director, who was 82 at the time.

>The Krakow prosecutor’s office, which had sought Mr. Polanski’s extradition on behalf of Los Angeles County, said a month later that it would abide by the judge’s ruling.

>But Mr. Ziobro appealed the decision to the Supreme Court at the end of May, calling the trial judge’s ruling “incomprehensible” and a “serious breach” of the extradition agreement between Poland and the United States.

>Mr. Ziobro said in an interview with Polish state radio in May that Mr. Polanski had received preferential treatment because of his fame.

>“If he was just a regular guy, a teacher, doctor, plumber, decorator, then I’m confident that he’d have been deported from any country to the U.S. a long time ago,” he said.

>In his opening statement on Tuesday, Jan Olszewski, a lawyer for Mr. Polanski, recalled how the Swiss authorities had declined in 2010 to extradite the director of “Chinatown” because of doubts over the conduct of the judge in his original trial.

>Jerzy Stachowicz, another lawyer for Mr. Polanski, argued in court that his client had not technically fled the United States because he had never been prohibited from leaving.

>“Mr. Polanski didn’t flee, as it is believed,” Mr. Stachowicz said. “He simply bought a plane ticket, checked in his luggage and boarded a plane. It was not fleeing.”

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>Referring to Mr. Ziobro’s argument, Mr. Stachowicz contended, “If Mr. Polanski were not a celebrity, a famous filmmaker, but he was an average Joe, this case would have been over long ago, and nobody would have ever heard of it.”

>The Supreme Court ruling means that Mr. Polanski, now 83, would be free to work in Poland. He is directing a film about Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jew who was wrongly accused of spying and whose case raised a debate in the late 19th century about prosecutorial misconduct.

>The film, “The Dreyfus Affair,” was initially to be shot in Poland, but it was announced in June that Mr. Polanski had decided to make it in France.

>That prompted speculation that his legal problems had led him to move production of the film, but Robert Benmussa, the producer of the movie, attributed the decision to French tax incentives, according to The Los Angeles Times.

>Mr. Polanski, who lives with his wife in France, was not present in court on Tuesday.

>“This is just too emotional for him,” Mr. Stachowicz, said by telephone on Monday, before the ruling. “This has been going on for such a long time. A ruling against overruling the first verdict would be a great relief for him.”

>After the ruling was announced, Mr. Olszewski, the lawyer, said he had spoken with Mr. Polanski on the phone. “ He is currently in France, where he is shooting his new film,” Mr. Olszewski said. “He is beyond happy that this is finally over. At least in Poland.”

>>89920
Why is his name Roman Polanski if he's Polish? Why not Polish Polanski?

>>89920
She looked pretty cute when she was 13. Nothing to be ashamed of 2bh familia.

Poland really went through with protecting those catholic values.

>>89920
A crime is a crime and I guess the authorities have to pursue their actions.
However, the woman who was the girl in question doesn't even want Polanski pursued on this matter.

>>89924
It's not Polański for the same reason that Krakow isn't Kraków and Warsaw isn't Warszawa. Go figure.

>>89933
lol this dirty jew gave her drugs and then inserted his mutilated penis into her sweet ass...he came buckets for sure

>>91031

Damn he prolly had the most mind blowing orgasm. Lucky guy

>>89920
>having sex with a 13-year-old girl.

So, is that what we're calling rape now?...

>>91062
Oh, shut the fuck up.

>>91062
In puritanical America it is.

>>91081
>>91092
I think, now just bear with me, I think their issue isn't that they think it shouldn't be considered rape.

I think their issue that instead of saying the man raped a kid, they called it "sex with a 13 year old" which is a much nicer way to refer to what he did than outright calling him the paedophile he is.

>>91106
because that would be explicitly inaccurate

there's also no a in pedo.

>legal in Spain

>>91062
When are you neo-nazi's going to stop trying to prosecute innocent men for teaching young people the joys of spirit cooking?

Talking about Jewish privilege....Polanski rapes little girl....years of media's campaign to forgive him.

Men Gibson....insults Jews.....10 years of constant attacks against him.

>>91224
>years of media's campaign to forgive him.
I'm pretty sure that by bringing it up at all every few years the media is doing exactly the opposite of this.