For those who don't know Roman Polanski is a director of some very well regarded movies. He has also spent the last few decades on the run after being pleading guilty to raping a 13 year old girl. After the prosecution decided to lower the charges they brought against Polanski in exchange for a guilty plea. However Polanski had heard that the judge was thinking of rejecting the short prison term the prosecution had agreed to and throwing the proverbial at the director. In light of this Polanski ran. He has spent years on the run carefully avoiding countries with extradition agreements with the US.
After his arrest last year in Switzerland his lawyers have tried to argue that he does not need to be extradited to the US. The judge disagrees even throwing out a request from the victim of Polanski's crime that the case be dropped. Discretion is all over this case from the prosecutions decision to lower the charges against Polanski, to Polanski's own judgment to flee justice. The story I read can be found here.
After his arrest last year in Switzerland his lawyers have tried to argue that he does not need to be extradited to the US. The judge disagrees even throwing out a request from the victim of Polanski's crime that the case be dropped. Discretion is all over this case from the prosecutions decision to lower the charges against Polanski, to Polanski's own judgment to flee justice. The story I read can be found here.
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