roman polanski i would like to talk about roman polanski who in nineteen
seventy seven then age forty four became embroiled in scandal involving
thirteen-year-old samantha gaylee now her name is samantha samantha
diner
gamer i'm not sure how you pronounce the last name
it ultimately lad
two roman polanski pleading guilty to the charge of online for sexual
intercourse with a minor now that is not rape
it is unlawful sexual intercourse with a low it's a lesser charge that he pled
down to you
the young woman testified that polanski gave her a combination
of champagne
and quayle ids
and then raped her
we were talking before off the air louis whether this was
consensual statutory rape situation with a girl was underage
or whether did was
forceable rape
so to speak
and from every everything i've read it was forceable rape
under the terms of the plea agreement the court ordered roman polanski to
report to a state prison for ninety days for what's called a psychiatric
evaluation
and then he was also permitted to travel abroad because he was working on some
kind of project he did that he went to chino state prison he was released after
forty two days
all parties expected roman polanski dot only get probation
at the sentence hearing that was coming up
but after supposed to come recession with the deputy district attorney in
l_a_ david wells the jed suggested to polanski's attorneys that he would send
the director to prison
and order him deported
which in the opinion of sun
was a
two severe punishment in the opinion of sun
in response to that part of imprisonment polanski flood
he left the united states
completed this forty two-day evaluation period
being released
he then fled
he went to london than to france to avoid extradition by britain a long
story short he was arrested entering switzerland for an event
just a few days ago
incredible amount of controversy over this absolutely incredible amount of
controversy
i'm not even do you think lewis we should just start with
one of those who were defending polanski saying or should we start with
the the obvious other side of those that don't have time for one st
we'll start with the ones defendants
so the argument and which side of this year on by the levels
but you want to hear the arguments first
what's your argument that so those are defending polanski or saying a lot of
different things and i'll give the argument and i'll tell you why i don't
think it's a good argument
number one this happened years ago and the principal point if this young this
young girl
who is now
not a young girl says the incident as behind her she's not interested in
criminal proceedings anymore
she is not even concerned about it so to speak
why are they still bugging him about this
the cases the case was the state of california versus roman polanski
it's not up to the girl that he raped by the way
this is a california is the people of
verses from polanski
it doesn't seem legally relevant to me and again on the lawyer
it doesn't seem regal the relevant any that she
thinks if that is behind her it is behind her it was a long time ago but
legally i don't think it's relevant number two
some people are saying hey this guy
survive nazism
and stalinist persecutions in poland
that's experts horrible
it's it's sad that he had those experiences but
i've never heard of holocaust survivors and others who have had said lives being
free to commit crimes without absolutely note no retribution
any argument there
no argument
that the statute of limitations would be up already if he had committed the crew
the same crime in europe
nonsense arguing to me the crime wasn't committed in europe
he flood to europe two of the event avoid
serving the time he was going to be sentenced you
they didn't wait this long to try him he simply fled i don't think statute of
limitations is the issue
can you imagine the same being set of a murder
or of a nazi concentration camp where you know
in certain countries the statute of limitations would have already been up
on that idon't see that as a viable as a vial the fed by a viable defense
and then you had a lot of people coming out of the woodwork a lot of hollywood
people debra winger for example saying
that they are going after him on what she calls an i'm quoting here
and arcane
technicality
it's an arcane technicality called
it it doesn't seem that our came to me
was illegal than
it's illegal now yes i get he he pleaded to
unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor
this is a fees are fugitives kiki flooded so auto if you're a to someone
and fully that's wrong and i know that
there's tons of disagreement with what i'm saying right now
it's just hard for me to imagine a situation where
because he successfully evaded evade avoided
his punishment for so long
that it should note no longer be followed up on i'd just don't understand
i think ultimately it's clean will probably uh... and are working in his
favor
you know i i don't want to has his liver wonderful life directing and producing
movies in the name here at the it's already giving him more than a year even
at this point you know i think
it's more than likely that you probably won't do any time at all
you know that you're doing fine
doubt he's already been sitting in jail for a few days that sometime
well
you know it is
if he does i imagine reviews very short amount of time
and it will be in one of those prisons are they put people like this which is
more like a
of or glorified a
motel that you just can't leave
but at the same time
in the cat back back to the california prison system
when child molesters go in there they are not treated particularly well
they're not hutu particularly well at all it's not clear whether if the if
this is followed up followed through on he would have to go back to the
california prison system that i don't know but it's just very hard for me to
get past
he has been convicted of a crime
of very
perverted crime
for which she has not served time
b_s_e_ served some time
during that he was using jail being held during some of the time of the trial
he flood
and and he break the thirteen-year-old right we know that he admitted to that
and he is not serve time
i hear all the other our other argument it's hard for me to get past that
savior no i guess you know you should adjust fiona simon
well some say he was going to he was going to fifty years prosecco being
deported in that that would have been in
an unfair amount of time which is a different argument they need that should
have been appealed or something something but saying that because he
successfully
avoided being brought back
he now shouldn't serve time to me it's harjit hard for me about it popping some
punishment is uh... is in line and i'm sure some people will say that you know
not being able to come to the u_s_ was punishment enough for something
ridiculous like that robin s very silly i disagree