Roman Polanski is denied latest bid to resolve 40-year-old statutory rape case

[brooklynite]

Source: Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles County judge has denied the latest effort by Roman Polanski to resolve his 40-year-old statutory rape case, saying that the filmmaker cannot be sentenced in absentia because he remains a fugitive from justice.

In a written decision handed down Monday, L.A. County Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon said that Polanski’s current motions are based on the same arguments previously presented and rejected by other judges. “No sufficient or compelling basis for reconsideration of these issues … has been presented,” he wrote in the 13-page decision.

Gordon wrote that Polanski’s fugitive status prevents him “from obtaining the relief he desires until he presents himself in the court’s jurisdiction.” The ruling is similar in substance to previous court decisions in which judges have said that Polanski, who fled the United States in 1978 and resides in France, must return to the country in order to pursue his requests.

But on Monday, Gordon agreed to a hearing later this month to consider a controversial piece of testimony that the filmmaker is seeking to unseal.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-roman-polanski-decision-20170403-story.html

[AtheistCrusader]

1. Dude fled the country the year I was freakin' born.

I hope this is his last appeal.

[nilesobek]

2. I have heard this argument about Snowden on DU and agree.

If you are on the run you cannot legally negotiate plea bargain and appeals.

[cstanleytech]

3. I dont have any sympathy for him to be honest as he was offered a deal in 1997 according to

the article that would have seen him being sentenced to time served but he backed out because it was going to be televised.

[7962]

4. Good. he's a child molester who has never done time for his crime.

I dont give a shit WHAT movies he did. If he's done his time, he wouldve been out decades ago

[Happyhippychick]

5. He drugged and raped a 13 year old child

That's all I need to know.

[randome]

6. Hey, Assange, only 35 more years and you'll break the record for self-incarceration!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]All things in moderation, including moderation.[/center][/font][hr]

[MineralMan]

7. You reap what you sow, Polanski.

Don't rape young girls. That's the lesson. You're welcome to stay right where you are.

[needledriver]

8. Why is he even bothering to negotiate?

These days with a record like that you can run for President.

[KWR65]

9. There is the law for the rich and the law for the rest of us.